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Spain’s left-wing government has begun to implement its new policy of refusing entry to Spanish harbours to cargo ships carrying weapons for Israel. The Danish freighter Marianne Danica was already denied a port call as requested for May 21, Transport Minister Óscar Puente wrote on Thursday evening on X, formerly Twitter. Spain will systematically reject such stopovers “for one obvious reason,” Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in Brussels late on Thursday evening: “The Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace.” Spain is one of the harshest critics in Europe of Israe…

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