THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMM
Bears were spotted near where Omsk Minister of Health Alexander Murakhovsky, who said Putin foe Alexei Navalny wasn’t poisoned, was last seen after going hunting in a forest.
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APOCALYPTIC
Private jet rentals are up 900 percent with the middle class spending their life savings to flee, just as Nepal sees a deadly surge in cases as the chaos spills over the border.
NOT COMING HOME
The two Californians killed an undercover cop during a botched attempt to buy cocaine while on vacation in Rome.
PRIORITIES
Opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi accused Narendra Modi of continuing work on his lavish vanity project while the country spirals deeper into chaos.
LIFE SAVING MEASURE
Scientists are pleading with the prime minister to release vital sequencing data on the current strain of COVID-19 as well as testing and recovered patients to predict next surge.
FANNING THE FLAMES
Narendra Modi has urged Indians to get out to the polls—and has promised them vaccines and an end to the pandemic if they do.
LAST RESORT
A mother in her fifties died of low oxygen trying to find a hospital bed. Then her sons wedged her between them and drove 300 miles to bury her.
IT’S EVERYWHERE
More than 100 people have been infected and two local U.S. consulate employees have died as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread unmitigated in India.
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
Things keep getting worse in India after a fire broke out in a COVID ward, killing 14 as new daily cases top 330,000.
TIDE IS TURNING
In late March, the new Italian government banned all massive cruise ships from entering the city center of Venice, but until a new port is ready, they aren’t going anywhere.
