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My apologies for Newsweek, I couldn't find a better source.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/middleeast/us-embassy-jerusalem-authorized-departure.html

With the threat of a U.S. strike on Iran looming, the United States embassy in Jerusalem has told its workers that they may leave Israel and warned them that if they want to, it is vital that they do so immediately.

The directive came from Ambassador Mike Huckabee in an email to embassy workers at the U.S. mission on Friday, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times.

Those wishing to leave “should do so TODAY,” Mr. Huckabee continued, urging them to find a flight out of Ben-Gurion Airport to any destination for which they could book passage.

He added that while there might be more outbound flights in the coming days, there also might not be.

Already, KLM, the Dutch airline, has suspended service to Israel, citing “commercial and operational considerations.”

In the email, Mr. Huckabee told embassy employees that the mission had shifted to an “authorized departure” footing as of 10 a.m. Friday. That allows nonessential personnel and their dependents to evacuate at the government’s expense when “U.S. national interests or imminent threat to life requires it,” according to State Department regulations.

The State Department issued a travel advisory on Friday in which it confirmed the shift to authorized departure for the U.S. mission in Israel, and urged other Americans to “reconsider travel” to both Israel and the West Bank, citing “terrorism and civil unrest.”

The State Department has taken precautions already elsewhere in the region. On Monday, the U.S. embassy in Lebanon ordered the departure of all non-emergency personnel and the family members of all government personnel.

Changes in version 145.0.7632.120.0:

• update to Chromium 145.0.7632.120

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 145.0.7632.109.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.

Changes in version 146.0.7680.31.0:

• update to Chromium 146.0.7680.31

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 145.0.7632.120.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51513798

[Opinion piece by Sebastien Lai. He is the son of Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.]

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China says it stands for stability and the international rule of law. Yet it has sentenced my 78-year-old father, British citizen and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, to twenty years in prison for peaceful journalism. That contradiction should define every European leader’s visit to Beijing.

To mark the occasion of German Chancellor Merz’s official visit to Beijing, the Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China on Wednesday issued a press release invoking friendship between the two states and urging trust in an era of instability. In a nod to Trump’s Board of Peace, it also notes that China and Germany stand by the central role of the United Nations and the importance of the international rule of law.

These are fine words. But they are also empty. For as long as my father, the journalist, prisoner of conscience and British citizen Jimmy Lai, remains behind bars, Hong Kong is proof that China’s claim to respect international law is a plain falsehood.

[...]

In the same year that my father has been convicted and sentenced for exercising his right to free speech in Hong Kong, the UK Prime Minister and the German Chancellor have made official visits to China. While I understand the importance of advancing trading interests, I urge leaders everywhere to beware an economic partner who is willing to flout international law, ignore the UN, disregard human rights and put a frail, British prisoner of conscience through an unspeakable ordeal simply because he dared to speak truth to power.

This is not just a moral case. Hong Kong’s descent from the rule of law into tyranny is bad for business. It puts contracts at risk of being unenforceable, makes employers and employees vulnerable to political pressure and taints the potential of the free market with totalitarian control. If Beijing is willing to ignore international law, how can it be trusted to abide by the terms of a trade deal?

[...]

King County Library System today announced KCLS Rewind, opens a new window, a first-of-its-kind challenge for adults that taps into the unmistakable thrill of earning pizza for turning pages – now remixed for the 21st century. Think pizza boxes, throwback playlists, and the satisfying click of a library checkout scanner. KCLS Rewind invites adults to relive a favorite childhood motivation while discovering everything today’s library has to offer. And if patrons didn’t get the chance to read for pizza in the 90s, they can discover it for themselves through KCLS Rewind.

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) torturers systematically use sexual violence and rape against Palestinians held hostage in Israeli torture chambers and during their attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank

Israeli torturers have photographed Palestinian women, including pregnant women, in degrading positions, including in their underwear in front of male soldiers, subjected them to repeated and invasive strip searches, and threatened to rape or actually raped them.

Israelis have systematically raped and sexually assaulted Palestinian men held hostage in Israeli torture chambers, including through the use of electrical probes to cause burns to the anus, as well as the insertion of objects, such as fingers, sticks, broomsticks and vegetables, into hostages' genitalia.

Israeli torturers and settlers also sexually abuse Palestinian children as young as 14.

In 2021, when the NGO Defense for Children - Palestine (DCI-P) exposed that an IOF torturer had physically and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Israeli custody, DCI-P's office was raided by Israeli authorities. The NGO was stripped of its equipment and labelled a "terrorist organisation".

The violence of IOF soldiers increasingly also includes sexual acts intended to feminise or shame not only the victim but the Palestinian community as a whole, in an increasing trend to photograph or film these acts. For example, IOF soldiers committing genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip repeatedly filmed themselves going through Palestinian women's underwear and making sexual comments about the undergarments.

Nothing bad happens in the post.

So, I have ordered something to Amazon locker for the first time.
It was already dark outside, but still just 19:20, so I went to pick up my parcel.
I got to the locker at around 20:30 (you see, the nearest locker isn't that close), while suddenly, I hear a car stop behind me, and I hear some German.
"POLIZEI", the car states.
Now, I don't speak German, but thankfully they spoke English.

"Where are you going?"
"To the Amazon box."
"Are you from [city]?"
"Yes."
"...OK..."
He sounded a bit confused/surprised, but it's just a 4km walk from the last bus stop at the other side of the border.

Well, I didn't wait after the OK, and just resumed walking towards the locker. They however stayed there, watching me.

"Well, this thing better be working.", I thought.
I typed in the code, doors opened, and the Police drove away.

I searched around if for some god knows what reason Austria has a curfew, nope.
Finally at last, while waiting for a bus back, I tried checking the locker on Amazon. For some reason, this is not stated on the order page. So, I go to my addresses, click to add a pick-up point, search for this locker, and would you look at that.
Open till 7pm.

But, like, why? It's just next to a parking lot, a few meters from the sidewalk. No locks, gate, anything.

The Seattle Social Housing Developer smashed projections and pulled in more than double the amount expected from a recently voter-approved "excess compensation tax." Social housing advocates' priority bill at the state legislature is also making significant progress.

The small infrastructure of Seatttle's Men's World Cup preparations continues with an announcement of four free fan zones in the city core.