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William Booth

@BoothWilliam

London Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. Formerly same in Jerusalem, Mexico City, LA & Miami. Likes = file cabinet.

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Missed this last week: The Washington Post's William Booth and Hazem Balousha on Israeli military's current mode of operations in Gaza and how it envisions the way forward: washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…

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🇺🇸 Inside The Ruins Of al-Shifa Hospital

▫Escorted in Gaza by the IDF, Post journalists were given a narrow view of its mass destruction
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🇺🇸 Inside The Ruins Of al-Shifa Hospital ▫Escorted in Gaza by the IDF, Post journalists were given a narrow view of its mass destruction ▫@BoothWilliam @lorenzotug ▫is.gd/J3nvkQ #frontpagestoday #USA @washingtonpost 🇺🇸
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Hello British youngish hacks! The applications are coming due soon-ish for the Washington Post's Stern-Bryan Fellowships. Follow in the footsteps of Gabriel Pogrund Alexandra Heal Laura Hughes Cara McGoogan Louisa Loveluck city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

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Hello British youngish hacks! The applications are coming due soon-ish for the Washington Post's Stern-Bryan Fellowships. Follow in the footsteps of Gabriel Pogrund Alexandra Heal Laura Hughes Cara McGoogan Louisa Loveluck city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

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Attention British Hacks! The The Washington Post accepting applications for 44th year of Stern-Bryan Fellowships. Work 3 months in DC. Get paid. Cover Trump v Biden, hurricanes, Congress, US news alongside some lovely journos. city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

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The inimitable William Booth on the discovery of a pliosaur, “one of the rarest of the rare, and the most fearsome marine reptile that ever lived — the saltwater version of Tyrannosaurus rex.” wapo.st/3OBZ9ER

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Workers The Washington Post have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months.

But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.

So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.

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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke today at an inquiry on the U.K.’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, admitting his team underestimated the threat.

Story by William Booth here: shorturl.at/azGOX

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President of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, claims there is “no science” that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to limit warming to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting say, “unless you want to take the world back into caves.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Ilya Sutskever, a respected A.I. researcher who co-founded OpenAI with Mr. Altman and nine other people, was increasingly worried that OpenAI’s technology could be dangerous and that Mr. Altman was not paying enough attention to that risk. nytimes.com/2023/11/18/tec…

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Wonderfully written article on mentioning our .

But, ⁦William Booth⁩ - I disagree that the main driver is climate change. We believe changes how buildings are designed and built because it’s better. 1/x washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

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My buddy William Booth is such a splendid foreign correspondent that you might not know he started out as a science writer. But, lucky you! You get to see him return to his roots for this story about wood buildings and climate change.
washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

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Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages. In hours,Gaza militants broke through the border fence into southern Israel, surprising local military positions. theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

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The trend now is younger buyers, with younger families, who struck it rich, or as super broker Henry Smith called it, experienced “a big liquidity event.” wapo.st/3PHR5lw

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“You might think superyacht sales would be super down, what with global inflation, a real estate bust in China, threats of recession, trench warfare in Europe and … a planetary climate crisis. Surprise. You would be wrong.” washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/… William Booth

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Examining Queen Anne’s personal correspondence, De Koning concluded that Anne’s skillful diplomacy was “crucial” in Britain being awarded the “asiento,” or contract from Spain to transport 4,800 enslaved Africans per year to the Spanish colonies. wapo.st/45g7qno

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