Ukraine: Kiev calls for negotiations on the fate of Marioupol
Ukraine has called for negotiations with Russia on the fate of the besieged city of Mariupol, as Moscow made a show of force by testing a new intercontinental missile that can carry nuclear warheads. "We are ready to hold a +special negotiation session+ in Mariupol. To save our guys, (the battalion) Azov, soldiers, civilians, children, the living and the wounded. Everyone," wrote Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, on Twitter. The corridor to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine "did not work," Ukraine's deputy prime minister said earlier, accusing the Russians of violating the ceasefire and blocking the buses. No evacuation corridor had been set up in Ukraine since Saturday, due to a lack of agreement with the Russians who have intensified their strikes in eastern Ukraine in recent days.
Rocket attacks on Israel, air strikes on Gaza
Palestinian armed groups launched a salvo of rockets from the Gaza Strip on Thursday towards Israel, which carried out a series of strikes in this territory under the control of the Hamas Islamists, raising fears of a new military escalation against the backdrop of tensions over the holy sites in Jerusalem. On Wednesday evening, a rocket, the second this week, was fired from the Gaza Strip and hit a field in the Israeli town of Sderot (south) without causing any injuries. In the aftermath, the Israeli army conducted a series of strikes in the center of this microterritory of 2.3 million inhabitants, according to witnesses and security sources.
And shortly after these retaliatory strikes, four other rockets were fired towards Israel, where they were intercepted by the missile shield "Iron Dome", said the army as alarm sirens sounded in the middle of the night in Israeli communities neighboring the Gaza Strip. The shooting - the second this week and among the most intense since the end of the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021 - comes after clashes over the weekend between Israeli and Israeli forces.The clashes - the second this week and among the most intense since the end of the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021 - come after weekend clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police on Jerusalem's Esplanade of the Mosques, Islam's third holiest site and Judaism's first holy site under its name of the Temple Mount.

Tennis: Wimbledon excludes Russian and Belarusian players
Wimbledon has excluded Russians and Belarussians from the 2022 edition of the grass court major due to the war in Ukraine, becoming the first tennis tournament to exclude these players individually. Daniil Medvedev, world No. 2, Andrey Rublev (8th), Aryna Sabalenka (4th and semi-finalist last year), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (15th) and Viktoria Azarenka (ex-N.1 now 18th) will not be able to defend their chances in London. "Under the circumstances of an unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to benefit in any way from the participation of Russian or Belarusian players," explained the tournament. The ATP, which manages the men's professional tennis circuit, considered Wimbledon's decision "unjust".
IN BRIEF
Queen Elizabeth II, the world's oldest sitting monarch, turns 96 on Thursday, now largely retired from public life due to mobility problems.
Cannon fire from the Tower of London and Hyde Park will mark the event and a military band will play "Happy Birthday" for the occasion. But the queen, who passed in February the milestone of 70 years of reign, will celebrate this day "privately", said to AFP a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace. She flew Wednesday by helicopter to the royal estate of Sandringham, 200 kilometers north of London. According to the press, she will spend a few days at Wood Farm, the relatively modest house with a view of the North Sea that her husband Philip, who died last year, was so fond of.

Finance ministers and central bankers of the G20, meeting Wednesday on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank meetings, left the plenary session or turned off their screens to protest against the presence of Russia.
The actor Johnny Depp said Wednesday in a U.S. court that the accusations of violence made by his ex-wife Amber Heard had cost him "everything", placing him in a state of "finished" man.
L1: Paris SG won 3-0 in Angers, but its coronation in Ligue 1 was delayed by its rival and runner-up Marseille, overthrown against Nantes (3-2), in a 33rd day. Monaco, unstoppable, climbed to 4th place by dominating Nice, a competitor for Europe, 1-0.