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🇷🇺 ⚔️ A Russian attack on NATO is no longer unthinkable.

Bloomberg Economics modelled how an invasion of the Baltic states might unfold — and what it would cost ⤵️
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Satellite Images Question Trump’s Claim Iran’s Atomic Sites Destroyed The task of ensuring Iran doesn’t build a weapon might just have got tougher.

"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.bsky.social read 👇
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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

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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 👇

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🧐 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...

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Spain Bets on 1 Million Migrants to Keep Its Economy Growing 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.

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."

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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

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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

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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

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..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Netanyahu Says Israel to Take Over All Gaza, Start Aid Flows 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.

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..."
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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.”

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According to the Integrated Food Security Classification, one in five of Gaza’s population are now experiencing the most extreme level of starvation - famine 👇

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King and Prince William’s estates ‘making millions from charities and public services’ Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster likely to make at least £50m from leasing land to services such as NHS and schools, according to investigation

"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"

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Israel Plans to Control Gaza Aid as International Pressure Grows 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 cont...

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 👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"

🗺️ for @bloomberg.com

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."

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Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Budget The Trump administration wants startups to remake the US military, setting the stage for a battle over the world’s biggest defense budget.

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, whether they’re airborne, in space, on land or in the sea."

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Trump Has Been Stopped By Courts More Than 200 Times A Bloomberg analysis of more than 325 court cases involving challenges to President Trump’s executive actions reveals the stress test on the balance of power taking shape.

NEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times.

We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming.

A deep, deep dive into the data:
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Wall Street Missed Warning Signs Ahead of $1 Billion Fintech Implosion Big banks like Citigroup and Natixis thought they were backing a $1 billion fintech darling. But when Stenn blew up, most of its supposed partners said they had never worked with the company.

Every week during the years before its collapse, Stenn sent granular emails to its Wall Street backers listing its biggest clients, line by line. Yet all was not as it seemed...

www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-23/stenn-collapse-how-citigroup-bnp-paribas-missed-fintech-s-warning-signs

See how the Australian election count is unfolding amid "Albo's" forecasted win...

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The exact cause of Spain's blackout is still unknown...

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Iran to Continue US Talks Next Week After ‘Constructive’ Meeting Iran said the first formal talks with US President Donald Trump’s administration over its nuclear program were “constructive” with both sides agreeing to meet again next week.

"Trump has said repeatedly he wants a deal or will resort to military action. Iran has said it won’t respond to threats and would only agree to indirect talks."

Read full analysis here 👇https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/iran

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Iran's nuclear sites are spread across the country, ranging from uranium mining to military testing.

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With US-Iran talks getting underway today, these are the highest-level talks since 2022.

Here is how Iran's production of highly-enriched uranium has surged since then...

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Israel’s Advance Into Gaza Lays Ground for Full-Scale Occupation Evidence of the plan is in plain sight, with Israel now controlling more of the enclave than at any point during the war

"Some experts in and outside Israel say the new approach is the result of a failure to eradicate Hamas.

And they point to numerous foreign occupations — Israel’s in Lebanon, the US in Vietnam and Afghanistan — as blood-stained calamities."

Full analysis👇
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A return to occupation will likely come at a heavy human cost.

More than 50,000 Gazans have been killed already
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"Israel controls more of Gaza than at any point during the war, part of a plan that officials increasingly describe as leading to a full military occupation."

See how the IDF's 'buffer zone' has expanded 👇

🗺️Map w/
@TomFevrier

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"The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries."

📊 by my colleagues @bloomberg.com

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"Netanyahu’s government says it will seize land within Gaza — creating more buffer zones — and is urging hundreds of thousands of civilians to move, yet again, away from battle areas.

The death toll is mounting."

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