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

BUNGA BUNGA FOREVER

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 | Published Jun 12, 2023

How We Cover Dictators, Dissidents, and Dangerous Places

THE BACKSTORY

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.

AD BY Back the Beast | Published Aug 21, 2020
opinion

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

PALESTAN?

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 | Published Aug 14, 2020

ISIS Is Setting Up Fake Social Justice Accounts on Facebook

HACKS

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

Michael Weiss, Moustafa Ayad | Published Jul 22, 2020

The Real Reason Behind Russia’s COVID Vaccine Hacks

THE BEARS ARE BACK

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

Anna Nemtsova | Published Jul 21, 2020

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

DOING THE RIGHT THING

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 | Published Jul 17, 2020
opinion

Russians See the COVID Vaccine as Key to Global Dominance

PANDEMENTED

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

Julia Davis | Published Jul 16, 2020

LGBTQ Poles Fear the Worst After President Duda Re-Elected

AFTERMATH

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 | Published Jul 16, 2020

Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster

GRADING ON THE CURVE

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 | Published Jul 14, 2020

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

POLES APART

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 | Published Jul 12, 2020

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