Our daily hot girl walk around the world

🌎 Caribbean “golden passports” are getting more expensive. Golden passports refer to programs where foreigners pay a certain country to gain citizenship, which, in the case of Caribbean nations, includes visa-free access to the EU, UK, and other countries. Four countries – Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda – agreed this week to increase the cost of citizenship to at least $200,000, after US and EU regulators voiced concerns that golden passports were being used to support organized crime, money laundering, and tax evasion. Caribbean golden passport programs collectively bring in ~$579 million/year, accounting for up to half of some countries’ annual budgets.

🇮🇱 An Israeli military airstrike killed seven international aid workers in Gaza. The deadly strike late Monday hit workers with World Central Kitchen, an aid group founded by celebrity chef José Andrés that’s considered one of the most important providers of food aid in Gaza. The incident marked the first known deaths among foreign aid workers in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began. World Central Kitchen, which has paused its operations in the Middle East following the airstrike, said its staff had coordinated their movements ahead of time with the Israeli military, and accused Israel of conducting a “targeted attack.”

🇧🇪 A trove of unreleased Marvin Gaye songs was discovered in Belgium. The collection of 66 demo songs was given by Gaye to musician Charles Dumolin in the 1980s. When Dumolin died in 2019, the cassette tapes were handed down to his family – though the right to publish the unheard songs is currently in dispute, since Gaye’s heirs could have a legal claim under Belgian law.