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Christopher Dickey

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Christopher Dickey, a veteran foreign correspondent, was The Daily Beast’s World News Editor, and the author of seven books, including Securing the City and, most recently, Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South. He died on July 16, 2020.

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BUNGA BUNGA FOREVER

Italy’s Most Enduring, Shameless, Permatanned Man Dead at 86

He partied with Putin and Gaddafi when it was almost cool, and left a sordid trail of women problems, tax probes, and a whole lot of photos of naked pols at his Sardinian lair.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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THE BACKSTORY

How We Cover Dictators, Dissidents, and Dangerous Places

International news and U.S. news are perilously intertwined in ways they never have been before, in a constant rush of events that The Daily Beast covers around the clock.

Christopher Dickey

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PALESTAN?

One-State Won’t Work for Israel. Two-State Won’t Either.

A one-state solution won’t work for Israelis and Palestinians. A two-state solution won’t either. Here’s the only path forward.

Seth J. Frantzman

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HACKS

ISIS Is Setting Up Fake Social Justice Accounts on Facebook

The jihadist group’s attempts to mimic Russian social media interference in American politics is painfully obvious—for now.

Michael Weiss

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THE BEARS ARE BACK

The Real Reason Behind Russia’s COVID Vaccine Hacks

Cybersecurity experts say the aim of Russia’s hacking attacks may be to discredit Western coronavirus vaccines.

Anna Nemtsova

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DOING THE RIGHT THING

This Is Why Italy’s Schools Are Going to Open on Time

Italy was once the pandemic pariah and a country no one wanted to emulate. Now it’s showing the way to keep coronavirus at bay, and totally random testing is a big part of that.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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PANDEMENTED

Russians See the COVID Vaccine as Key to Global Dominance

Russian state TV commentators have been perfectly out front declaring that whoever first obtained a vaccine would have a huge strategic advantage.

Julia Davis

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AFTERMATH

LGBTQ Poles Fear the Worst After President Duda Re-Elected

The campaign built around bigotry garnered 51 percent of the vote for Duda, leaving many LGBTQ people, especially the young, feeling half their country is against them.

Josephine Huetlin

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GRADING ON THE CURVE

Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster

Of 1,400 Israelis diagnosed with COVID-19 last month, 657 (47 percent) were infected in schools. Now 2,026 students, teachers, and staff have it, and 28,147 are quarantined.

Noga Tarnopolsky

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POLES APART

Here’s Who Drives the Anti-LGBTQ Agenda in Poland Elections

Whatever the outcome of Sunday's vote, the grassroots “pro-family” campaign against LGBTQ rights by the lawyers of Ordo Iuris will have played a major role.

Josephine Huetlin

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