WAR OF THE DOSES
Italy, backed by the European Commission, was the first country to block vaccines from leaving Europe and it won’t be the last.
Barbie Latza Nadeau, correspondent-at-large for The Daily Beast and author Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Guns and Drugs on the Mafia Coast, about sex trafficking and the mafia, and Beast Book Angel Face, about Amanda Knox, has reported from Italy for Newsweek since 1997 and for The Daily Beast since 2009. She is also a CNN Contributor and frequent writer for Scientific American.
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SOLDIER LEFT BEHIND
Byun Hee-soo was forced out of the military after undergoing gender-affirmation surgery. She was found dead the day her tour of duty was supposed to end.
LONG ARM OF THE LAW
Reporters Without Borders filed a criminal complaint in a German court seeking damages against MBS and the Kingdom for its persecution of journalists.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
The E.U. will introduce electronic covid cards to allow those who have been vaccinated to skirt regulations and those who haven’t to prove they have been tested.
COUPABLE
The former French president was sentenced to one year in prison for trying to bribe a judge with a posh post in Monaco in exchange for dirt about an investigation into his party.
PLOT TWIST
The same weapon was used in the 2012 gangland style assassination of a British Iraqi family and French cyclist in the Alps and a plot this month to off a French hypnotist.
DEVASTATING
Biden has released a damning report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that Trump was determined to keep covered up.
DIVINE INTERVENTION
Mt. Etna is giving a show of a lifetime, and the saints aren’t happy.
GRISLY
Murder suspect Lawrence Paul Anderson confessed to killing Andrea Lynn Blankenship and cutting out her heart, which he served to his aunt and uncle before attacking them too.
HINDSIGHT
Cops swooped on alleged accomplices in the murder of Panama Papers Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after one of the gang entered a plea bargain.
