Good Morning. We are covering a vaccine supply that has become a hot spot for the EU and protesters in Myanmar are building an armed resistance.

Italian authorities found a stash of 29 million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in a factory near Rome. The discovery of so many doses raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company was trying to figure out a way to export them to the UK or elsewhere.

The European Union has demanded that AstraZeneca keep its delivery promises to the EU. The bloc is finalizing emergency legislation that would allow it to restrict vaccine exports for six weeks in an attempt to remove supply bottlenecks.

The new rules will make it difficult for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines in the EU to export them and likely disrupt supplies to the UK.

Details: Authorities visited the construction site after receiving a warning from the European Commission stating a discrepancy between what the company said about production in EU facilities and what the facilities said themselves.

The payment: The European Union was expected to receive more than 100 million vaccine doses from AstraZeneca in the first quarter of this year, but it received only 16.6 million – a supply bottleneck that has affected vaccination efforts across the continent.

Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.

In other developments:

With 90 percent of the votes counted in the general election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing alliance had 52 seats while his opponents had 56 – both sides several seats fewer than the 61 required to form a majority coalition government.

If these numbers persist, they could add months to the political deadlock that has crippled the country for two years. Tuesday’s election was Israel’s fourth in two years. The final results are expected on Friday. Some suggest that both candidates would need the support of a small Arab party, Raam, to form a majority coalition.

Time for a change: Israeli commentators and analysts were embroiled in a debate about changes to the electoral system that could break the deadlock. But for some, the impasse is rooted in deeper rifts that divide society, divisions that have contributed to political fragmentation.

As the nation’s military kills, attacks and terrorizes unarmed civilians every day, some protesters say there is no choice but to fight the army on their own terms. Groups of students, activists and office workers with weapons have mobilized to form a kind of guerrilla force.

While protesters build barricades in towns to protect neighborhoods from military raids and keep going, armed forces in the woods train basic war techniques and plan to sabotage militarily allied facilities.

The boldness and desperation of the new front are a reaction to the ruthless actions of the military, which killed 275 people. Security forces shot at bystanders, ambulances and tortured inmates. Dozens of young demonstrators were killed by single shots in the head.

How it looks: The fighters at the front have piled up sandbags and built bamboo barricades, which they defend with homemade fire bombs. In some cases, they are supported by ethnic uprisings that the Tatmadaw, as the military is known, have targeted for years.

Quote: “We have to attack them back,” said a Yangon woman who spent a week at boot camp in the forest. “That sounds aggressive, but I think we have to defend ourselves.”

In two consecutive mass shootings, people again ask themselves: Why does the US have so many? A steadily growing number of researches always comes to the same result: The astronomical number of weapons, writes our columnist.

It started in response to the pandemic: a temporary policy allowed American museums to sell art from their collections to cover operating costs. Now museums across the country are debating whether to keep the measure.

The old guidelines of the Association of Art Museum Directors allowed museums to sell items when they no longer fit an institution’s mandate and when the proceeds were used to purchase other art, not pay salaries or other bills.

Museums that prefer to keep the new arrangement say it is necessary for their long-term survival. “It is misinformed to believe that every museum has a billboard full of billionaires,” said Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum. During the pandemic, the Brooklyn Museum raised nearly $ 35 million from auction sales.

Last month, the Met – the largest art museum in the US – even announced that it may be selling items to pay for staff involved in maintaining collections.

Those who oppose these sales argue that they undermine the mission of these museums. “If you want to flip images, there are many other types of institutions you can do it in,” Erik Neil of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va., Told The Times. “And they’re called commercial galleries.”

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The pollo en fricasé offers chicken thighs and potatoes on the bone. Like so many Puerto Rican dishes, this one is very adaptable.

What to read

Sharon Stone writes about her life and death in a new memoir. Read a question and answer.

What should I do

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Something to see

The documentary “Seaspiracy” takes the viewer on a world tour that shows the many causes of the decimation of marine life.

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