Elezioni UK; Biden in corsa "fino alla fine" 🗞️ Rassegna del 05/07/2024

Israele

(Reuters) Israel weighs Hamas response to Gaza ceasefire proposal

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet on Thursday evening to discuss new Hamas positions on a ceasefire deal in Gaza, a source in Netanyahu's office said, as fighting in the enclave raged.

• Before the cabinet meets, Netanyahu will have consultations with his ceasefire negotiations team, the source also said.

• Israel received Hamas' response on Wednesday to a proposal made public at the end of May by U.S. President Joe Biden that would include the release of about 120 hostages held in Gaza and a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.

Israele/Libano:
(The Guardian) Hezbollah says it has fired 200 rockets into Israel after killing of commander

• Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has fired 200 rockets into Israel in one of its largest barrages yet [...] Israel confirmed the Iran-backed militant group had fired “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” from Lebanon on Thursday towards the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and more than 15 drones into Israeli territory, many of which it said were intercepted. An Israeli military spokesperson said there were no casualties reported.
• Hezbollah said the barrage was in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its top commanders. It followed at least two attacks on Wednesday in response to what the group called “the assassination” of the commander Mohammed Nasser.
• The militant group said it launched 100 Katyusha rockets at an Israeli military base in Golan and its Iranian-made Falaq missiles at another base in the town of Kiryat Shmona near the Israel-Lebanon border.

Ucraina

(Reuters) Ukrainian forces pull back from part of strategic eastern town

• Ukraine's military said on Thursday its troops had pulled back from part of Chasiv Yar in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Russia said its forces had taken control of a district in the strategic town.

• Chasiv Yar stands on high ground. If they establish full control over the town, Russian forces could potentially use it as a staging post to advance westwards towards the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
• Russia's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday its forces had taken control of the "Novyi" district, which lies to the west of Siverskyi Donets-Donbas canal that runs through the eastern part of the town.

(Reuters) Russian shelling wounds seven in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, governor says

• Russian shelling wounded seven people in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said via the Telegram messaging app.

• The governor wrote earlier that Russian forces had attacked areas near Nikopol with kamikaze drones and artillery on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.

• Those attacks damaged infrastructure, four residential buildings, a gas pipeline and power line, he said.

Politica internazionale

Nord America

USA:

(Reuters) Biden vows to stay 'to the end' despite growing pressure to quit campaign

• U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to stay in the 2024 presidential race during calls with campaign staff and meetings with Democratic lawmakers and governors on Wednesday, as he sought to shake off calls for him to drop out after his shaky debate performance last week.

• Biden dialled in to a call with worried members of his campaign team and told them he wasn't going anywhere, according to two sources familiar with the call.

America Latina

(Reuters) Hurricane Beryl steams towards Cayman Islands, Mexico after striking Jamaica

• Hurricane Beryl steamed towards the Cayman Islands and Mexico on Thursday, after thrashing Jamaica with intense wind and rain, causing floods and power outages after forging a destructive path across smaller Caribbean islands over the past couple of days.
• As Beryl moved away from Jamaica early on Thursday, the island discontinued its hurricane warning but kept a flash flood watch, the Meteorological Service of Jamaica said on X.
• By late Wednesday, the storm's eye was about 100 miles (161 km) west of Kingston, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), as its core headed toward the Cayman Islands.
• Packing maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (209 kph), Beryl was expected to dump 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) of rain on the Cayman Islands into Thursday, where a hurricane warning was in effect and life-threatening surf and rip currents were possible, NHC said.
• A hurricane warning was also in force for the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

Asia e Pacifico

Filippine:

(Reuters) Philippines president orders de-escalation in South China Sea, military chief says

• Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has ordered his armed forces to defuse tensions in the South China Sea, his military chief said on Thursday, after a flare-up with China over missions to resupply Filipino troops on a contested shoal.

• Marcos' instructions came after Manila and Beijing agreed on the need to restore trust and confidence to better manage maritime disputes during a round of talks which Manila hosted on Tuesday.

Taiwan:

(Reuters) Taiwan says China's seizure of trawler may be act of psychological warfare

• China's seizure of a Taiwanese trawler operating close to the Chinese coast might be an act of psychological warfare by Beijing designed to further pressure Taipei, and Taiwan is working to get the boat released, officials said on Thursday.

• Chinese officials boarded and then took the boat to a port in China late on Tuesday. It was fishing for squid in Chinese waters near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands. China says it violated a summer ban on fishing and carried out illegal trawling operations.