Valanga Trump, Nikki Haley abbandona. Attacco Houthi uccide 2 marinai 🗞️ Rassegna del 7/3/2024

Israele

(Reuters) UN to test Israeli military road to get aid to Gaza's north.

NAZIONI UNITE, 6 marzo (Reuters) - Le Nazioni Unite valuteranno giovedì come utilizzare una strada militare israeliana al confine con la Striscia di Gaza per portare aiuti a centinaia di migliaia di civili disperati nel nord dell'enclave palestinese, un importante centro umanitario delle Nazioni Unite. ha detto il funzionario.

L’ONU ha avvertito che almeno 576.000 persone a Gaza – un quarto della popolazione – sono sull’orlo della carestia.

Gli aiuti possono attualmente raggiungere Gaza nel sud attraverso il valico di Rafah dall'Egitto e Kerem Shalom da Israele. McGoldrick ha detto che il piano prevedeva che i convogli umanitari venissero ispezionati a quei valichi, quindi scortati attraverso il territorio israeliano lungo una strada militare fino al villaggio israeliano di confine di Beeri.
 

"Una volta entrati a Gaza, saremo lasciati andare per conto nostro", ha detto, aggiungendo che giovedì l'ONU farà una valutazione del possibile nuovo percorso per verificare lo stato delle strade all'interno di Gaza e garantire che ci sia assenza di ordigni inesplosi e di individuare idonei punti di distribuzione degli aiuti.

Ucraina

(New York Times) Russia Strikes Odesa During Visit by Zelensky and Greek Leader

• A Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Odesa on Wednesday occurred while President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece were visiting the strategic port city.

• Neither was hurt, and they appeared to have continued their visit. It is unclear whether the Russian Army specifically targeted them or how close they were to the explosion.

• Mr. Mitsotakis told reporters in Odesa that he and Mr. Zelensky were visiting a port at the time of the assault. “We heard the sound of sirens and explosions that were very close to us,” he said, according to Sulspine, a public broadcaster. “We didn’t have time to go to a shelter.”

• Mr. Zelensky said the attack had left “dead and wounded,” but he did not elaborate. Dmytro Pletenchuck, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, said that Russia had struck port infrastructure in the city and that five people had been killed.

Russia

(Guardian) Yulia Navalnaya asks Russians to join anti-Putin polling station protest

• The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has called for people to protest against Vladimir Putin at polling booths in the forthcoming presidential election.

• Yulia Navalnaya urged her supporters to protest against Putin by voting en masse at noon local time in the 17 March election, forming large crowds and overwhelming polling stations.

• She said the action would also be a way to honour her late husband, who came up with the idea in one of his last public messages before his sudden death in an Arctic prison.

Politica internazionale

Nord America

(Reuters) Nikki Haley ends White House bid, clearing path for a Trump-Biden rematch

• Nikki Haley ended her long-shot challenge to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday, ensuring the former president will be the party's candidate in a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden in November's election.
• Haley, the former South Carolina governor and Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, bowed out a day after Super Tuesday, when Trump beat her soundly in 14 of 15 Republican nominating contests. "The time has now come to suspend my campaign," Haley told supporters during a speech in Charleston. "I have no regrets."
• She said it was likely Trump - who repeatedly belittled her candidacy - would be the Republican nominee but did not endorse him.
• "It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him," she said. "And I hope he does that."

Pro-Kremlin U.S. Filmmaker Pitched Fawning Films to Dictators — Starring Oliver Stone

• Igor Lopatonok, who promoted pro-Russian narratives about Ukraine and produced Oliver Stone’s lengthy interview with Kazakh strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev, had many other projects in store. 

• Lopatonok’s team wrote pitches for hagiographic films about Alexander Lukashenko, Ilham Aliyev, and other authoritarian leaders. His treatments made clear the films would be laudatory, with little risk their subjects would be challenged by discussion of human rights or democracy.

• Oliver Stone was pitched as the star interviewer on two of these films. His level of knowledge or involvement in them is unclear. None of the films has been made.

• Leaked emails suggest that Ukrainian oligarch and politician Viktor Medvedchuk, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, may have bankrolled one of Lopatonok’s other, completed films about Ukraine.

Medio Oriente

(Washington Post) Houthi missile strike kills two civilian mariners, U.S. officials say

• A missile launched by Houthi militants in Yemen struck a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, U.S. officials said, killing two people and marking the first fatalities in the Houthis’ months-long campaign of violence against maritime traffic.

• The missile struck the MV True Confidence at about 11:30 a.m. in Yemen, causing significant damage to the cargo ship, two U.S. officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the region, was expected to put out a statement shortly.

• At least six other mariners were injured, and the crew has abandoned ship, one of the U.S. officials said, adding that the attack marks the fifth anti-ship missile launched by the Houthis in the past two days.