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“Although in this case it is an acquisition of ammunition, the Interior Ministry has initiated the administrative procedure to cancel the purchase,” it added.

It also said Israeli firms will be excluded from any outstanding tenders.

The Cadena SER radio station reported earlier that Spain’s Civil Guard police force had agreed to a sale of over 15 million nine-millimeter rounds for $6.48 million from Guardian LTD Israel.

The announcement comes the week after the Spanish Defense Ministry told local media that it had halted the purchase of weapons from Israel. The European country had said it would stop arms sales to Israel after the start of the war on 7 October 2023.

This decision marks the first signal that the Spanish pledge will include purchases from Israel and not just sales.

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British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley.

Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and vehicle for devices and documents.

A letter addressed to Winstanley from the “Counter Terrorism Command” of the Metropolitan Police Service indicates that the authorities are “aware of your profession” as a journalist but that “notwithstanding, police are investigating possible offenses” under sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act (2006). These provisions set out the purported offense of “encouragement of terrorism.”

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In case someone missed this (i did :(, story from a week ago), forks also should be updated by now

Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component.

The issue has been addressed in the following versions of the web browser -

Firefox 131.0.2
Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and
Firefox ESR 115.16.1.

compares ukraine and gaza coverage in first 100 days

conclusion:

This survey of CNN and MSNBC coverage is quantitative evidence of a double standard in both empathy and emphasis during the early weeks of conflict—when moral narratives are cemented and sympathies are shaped for the public. Palestinian victims are made abstract, rarely given humanizing portraits, and their killings are seen as incidental and unintended. The killing of Ukrainians and Israelis, however, is put in stark moral terms, broadly presented as deliberate. This is just one part of a broader regime of media dehumanization that makes the ongoing decimation of Gaza palatable to the American public whose leaders continue to arm and fund it.

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