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Data journalist at Bloomberg Formerly @thetimes @businessposthq @TheSundayIndo @WIPLive Opinions all mine BlueSky: https://t.co/TGDufLtIqP

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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
9 months
Hello, I am posting more on BlueSky these days Follow me here 👉 https://t.co/uNd5rdmA3f
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
3 months
This is the altar at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London which honors journalists and media workers killed in action. In the past 18 months it has added a bench to accommodate lists of the names of all those killed reporting in Gaza.
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@faresakram
Fares Akram
4 months
In this explainer, @GalitAltstein and I dive into the hunger crisis in Gaza—its roots, causes, and what’s driving it today. @RachelLavin spent invaluable time augmenting the piece with charts and visualizations to make the data simpler. https://t.co/vyTi5ZQyaJ
bloomberg.com
The US and Israel tried to replace the UN’s aid delivery network. A famine ensued, according to a UN-backed monitor.
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Krishna Karra
4 months
we mapped more than 350 trash sites across Gaza using satellite imagery and machine learning. more than half of them are in close proximity to displaced people in tents. read our report documenting the environmental catastrophe 🎁: https://t.co/cflAjbGMjW
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Bloomberg
4 months
The bombardment of Gaza has left contaminated soil, blackened water and mounds of garbage spreading disease and pollution. It's a toxic legacy that will last generations, and extend beyond its borders. Read more: https://t.co/IQclTbVbSI 📷: Omar Ashtawy/APAImages/Shutterstock
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
5 months
"Rather than yielding a quick win, the strikes have complicated the task of tracking uranium and ensuring Iran doesn’t build a weapon..." For more from Bloomberg's nuclear reporter Jonathan Tirone @virtualnomad read 👇 4/4 https://t.co/Wg5wI8r9u0
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bloomberg.com
The task of ensuring Iran doesn’t build a weapon might just have got tougher.
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
5 months
IAEA inspectors, meanwhile, haven’t been able to verify the location of Iran's stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium for more than a week. That uranium inventory is enough to make 10 nuclear warheads and could fit in as few as 16 small containers 3/4
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
5 months
But Iran's nuclear facilities are diffuse. Across Iran, there has been strikes on the various locations, and stages, of Iran's nuclear fuel cycle 👇 2/4 https://t.co/Wg5wI8qBEs
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
5 months
🧐For Bloomberg: Satellite images question Trump’s claim Iran’s atomic sites were destroyed We looked at the damage to Iran's most heavily protected nuclear site👇📡🗺️ Here we can see new craters, possible collapsed tunnel entrances and holes on top of a mountain ridge... 1/4
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
One reason why: "Without newcomers, the Spanish population is projected to shrink by 1/3 A low birthrate means labor shortages, which leads to less tax revenue to pay for a growing number of pensions and health care & ultimately, economic stagnation." https://t.co/e0QR3J3W30
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bloomberg.com
The country is bucking European trends with its most ambitious migration push to date, including a proposal for a “mass regularization” of undocumented foreign workers.
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
So far, Spaniards are feeling positive about it Over half of the population said that they feel immigration makes their country a better place to live 2/3 https://t.co/e0QR3J3W30
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
Spain is bucking European trends by embracing migration 🇪🇸 Foreign-born residents are projected to more than double in the next 50 years 📈 Spain already saw one of the fastest demographic shifts in developed nations this century 1/3 https://t.co/e0QR3J3W30
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
Musk "told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder." "He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills..." https://t.co/WEKm0e9NtB
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nytimes.com
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
Smotrich said: "This time, the operational method is completely different: not raids, but rather occupation, cleansing and holding the territory until Hamas is destroyed. Along the way, we are destroying everything that is left of the Gaza Strip" 👇 https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL
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bloomberg.com
Israel will take over the entire Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, as the military announced it would carry out an “unprecedented attack” on Hamas.
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
On Monday, Netanyahu said that, alongside the increased attacks, Israel would start allowing aid into Gaza again. Smotrich, who had in the past opposed restarting the aid, said there was no choice, “otherwise, the world will force us to stop the war.” https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
According to the Integrated Food Security Classification, one in five of Gaza’s population are now experiencing the most extreme level of starvation - famine 👇 https://t.co/pM3PmHVOWL 1/3
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
6 months
"The sovereign grant that supports King Charles III and his family in carrying out their official duties increased by 53% in the last financial year ...£132 million - more than quadruple the £31 million of the initial grant introduced in 2012" https://t.co/XKwIJ9J8WP
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bloomberg.com
Brits should be told how much their royals’ extravagant lifestyles are costing them.
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
7 months
This comes as Israel threatens to occupy the entire enclave if there is no breakthrough in mediated hostage talks But it has also signaled it will hold off until after Trump’s visit to the region next week Full story here 👇 https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB
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bloomberg.com
Israel plans to set up distribution centers in southern Gaza and move a large number of Palestinians there, as it tries to balance international outrage over a blockade of aid to the enclave with...
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
7 months
Israel is now proposing that aid centers will be established in the army-controlled buffer zone: "Heads of Palestinian families will be admited to distribution points to receive food packages, but anyone deemed to be a Hamas member will be excluded" 🗺️👇 https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
7 months
Israel has blocked all international aid into Gaza for more than nine weeks now. The UN says Gaza is experiencing “probably the worst humanitarian situation ever seen throughout the war." 📉👇for @business https://t.co/2RnZhEyNrB
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@RachelLavin
Rachel Lavin
7 months
How AI is changing the battlefield: "Instead of dozens or even hundreds of soldiers supporting one $100 million system, one soldier using AI software could command dozens of cheap, autonomous weapons..." 📈👇 https://t.co/c8RFxDRxoB
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bloomberg.com
The Trump administration wants startups to remake the US military, setting the stage for a battle over the world’s biggest defense budget.
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