🧵ing this now as the situation has developed further: Columbia gives protesters until 2pm to leave or be suspended.

Students Pitch Tents For Gaza On 50 US College Campuses in Escalating Protests

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mass graves with over 400 bodies were recently uncovered at two Gaza hospitals after israeli military withdrew from them. the UN is calling for an investigation. jason kao and i used Planet satellite imagery to look closer at these grave sites.

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Hundreds of aging “fracture critical” bridges across the US are in poor condition, according to federal data. But weighing their needs and safety risks is a challenge.

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Tensions on college campuses across the country are threatening to boil over as administrators grapple with the rise of pro-Palestinian encampments students are erecting.

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Inspired by Columbia students, pro-Palestinian encampments have spread to more than 50 colleges in the US with calls for ceasefire in Gaza and university divestment from Israel and US weapons makers trib.al/85d6xwo

New: Mass graves with over 400 bodies of Palestinians were found after Israeli forces withdrew from Nasser Hospital and Al-Shifa Hospital, according to the UN.

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The last time BHP Group took a swing at another major miner, it was Rio Tinto, back in 2007. The world’s biggest miner will be hoping for a better outcome this time.

🔗🇦🇺🇿🇦🪨⛏️: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Billionaire real estate mogul and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is going all in on South Florida as a new power center.

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The UK is finally about to implement post-Brexit checks on food, almost eight years after Britons voted to leave the European Union.

🔗🇬🇧⛓️‍💥🇪🇺: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

In this week’s #MapLab newsletter, we explore Bloomberg’s analysis of how tents and airstrike damage have changed Rafah.

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Arizona Republicans are moving to repeal a near-total abortion ban that is alienating independents, a growing voter bloc that determines election victories in the state.

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The election campaign in India is heating up, both in temperatures and rhetoric. Here's how voting in Mangaluru will test development against Prime Minister Modi’s Hindutva push.

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From Bloomberg Opinion: Japan was mired in three lost decades until a confluence of discipline, luck, Covid and Warren Buffett changed its fortunes, says Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド. How will it use its superpowers now?

🔗🇯🇵🌸🛬: bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll for April 2024: Biden’s recent polling bump in key states has mostly evaporated as deep pessimism about the economy hurts his standing with swing-state voters.

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The East London financial district of Canary Wharf is struggling to retain some major occupiers but it’s not all doom and gloom. See who’s in and who’s out.

🔗🏙🇬🇧: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Bloomberg’s poll tracker for the Mexico 2024 elections shows that the frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum’s lead is growing, now at 29 points ahead of main opposition rival Xóchitl Gálvez, as of April 14 (published April 23).

🔗🇲🇽🗳: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

From Tuesday’s Big Take: Xi Jinping’s aggressive armada is keeping Asian nations from tapping their oil and gas riches in the South China Sea.

🔗🇨🇳🇻🇳🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇳🇵🇭🚢🌊: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Eastern Congo is at risk of plunging back into the sort of conflict not seen since the brutal wars of the 1990s.

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1/3 of Rafah’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed, according to the satellite analysis by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek

Krishna Karra detected tents and new structures using Planet imagery. The data is public: github.com/BloombergGraph…

mapping by me and Jeremy C.F. Lin 林辰峰

The Israeli invasion of Gaza has led to more than 1 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah. Using satellite analysis to identify damaged buildings and refugee tents, here is what the Rafah region now looks like.

🟨 Tents 🟧 Damaged buildings