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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 FOREVERHe 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.

How We Cover Dictators, Dissidents, and Dangerous Places
THE BACKSTORYInternational 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.

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.

ISIS Is Setting Up Fake Social Justice Accounts on Facebook
HACKSThe jihadist group’s attempts to mimic Russian social media interference in American politics is painfully obvious—for now.

The Real Reason Behind Russia’s COVID Vaccine Hacks
THE BEARS ARE BACKCybersecurity experts say the aim of Russia’s hacking attacks may be to discredit Western coronavirus vaccines.

This Is Why Italy’s Schools Are Going to Open on Time
DOING THE RIGHT THINGItaly 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.

Russians See the COVID Vaccine as Key to Global Dominance
PANDEMENTEDRussian state TV commentators have been perfectly out front declaring that whoever first obtained a vaccine would have a huge strategic advantage.

LGBTQ Poles Fear the Worst After President Duda Re-Elected
AFTERMATHThe 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.

Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster
GRADING ON THE CURVEOf 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.

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