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Torrential rains hit the town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, last week. More than 200 people have died, hundreds more are missing and an estimated 3,000 people have been displaced. Judith Leveillee heads UNICEF Nigeria's field operations and emergency response. She spoke with host Carolyn Beeler from Abuja.

The Trump administration has banned DEI policies across the US and wants the same for anyone, anywhere, who does business with the country. That includes overseas companies that offer services to US missions or to the US government. But the White House may have gone a step too far in trying to get a public library in Barcelona to change its inclusion policies. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from...

The Dutch Election Commission has to schedule new elections, after far-right politician Geert Wilders pulled his ministers from the four-party governing coalition. Opposition leaders in parliament today condemned the choice to bring Wilders into the coalition in the first place, and said he should never be allowed into government again. Host Carolyn Beeler explains.

On the eve of his first meeting with US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Fredrich Merz launched a 46-billion-euro (around $53 billion) package of corporate tax breaks on Wednesday to try to stimulate his country's sluggish economy. Germany is the Eurozone's largest economy and it's struggling to reset after several years of stagnant growth. Host Carolyn Beeler gets reaction from Veronika...

Developers of genetically modified seeds hope to boost production and prevent crop diseases in countries hit the hardest by climate change. But farmers on the ground in Kenya have big concerns. The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US-based firm that helped design and manage an aid initiative to deliver food to Palestinians in Gaza in areas controlled by the Israeli military, has withdrawn its team from the operation. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung speaks with host Carolyn Beeler about the role BCG and US security contractors have played in the relief effort.  

According to recent research, the semicolon has declined in use in British books by 50%. The World's Sarah Birnbaum explores why the misunderstood punctuation mark is under threat.

Mexico's former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, used his Morena party's majority to shove through reforms to make all judges in Mexico elected, instead of appointed. Now, current President Claudia Sheinbaum is watching as the makeup of the Supreme Court has completely changed. The court now aligns with the Morena party. Down-ballot candidates in local elections are still being determined,...

The city of Cologne, Germany, evacuated more than 20,000 people from its city center, after three unexploded bombs from World War II were found. That's the largest evacuation the city has seen since that war. The city went quiet as emergency services moved in to defuse the bombs. Host Carolyn Beeler has the story.

Images of candles, flowers or a single banana in front of four apples in a line. These are among the images that are being erased from the internet in China today. That's because it's June 4, and also the 36th anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Beijing against the massive student-led protests at Tiananmen Square. The Chinese government has never come clean about what happened that day. And aft...

Vietnam is scrapping a long-standing rule that families can only have two children. The National Assembly passed amendments on Tuesday to make that change. Host Carolyn Beeler has more details.

South Korea appears to have a new president. Polls and early results show Lee Jae-Myung winning a snap election today by a wide margin. Lee is a center-left politician promising to end a chaotic period for South Korea. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with The World's Patrick Winn, who's been following the election.

Japan is about a week into a new postal program that assigns a digital code to individuals that can stand in for physical addresses. The program is designed to do away with errors in labeling or addressing packages. Host Carolyn Beeler explains that, so far, the seven-digit code can only be used for package delivery.

The octopus population in the waters south of England is booming. Typically a rare species, fishermen in one town pulled in more than 70,500 pounds of octopus on a single day — compared to the usual average of about 400 pounds. This population boom comes as those same waters are experiencing a marine heat wave that has lasted for several months. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with marine ecologist Lis...

The images of Monday's eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily were eye-popping. Towering plumes of charcoal-colored ash rose miles into the air. But scientists say what made this new eruption interesting was material that gushed across the land from the crater: pyroclastic flow. Host Carolyn Beeler explains.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is facing growing calls to disarm following its battle with Israel last year. The group is now faced with major losses to its infrastructure and top leadership. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Sami Halabi from the Alternative Policy Institute about the complexities of disarmament for the group.

US officials have suspended visa interviews for all international students looking to study in the United States. They say they’re revamping policies to include the vetting of applicants' social media accounts. The US has long been the top destination for students from Latin America; many Latin American leaders have been educated in the United States. But as Michael Fox reports from Quito, Ecuador...

Seaweed plays a key role in the world’s oceans. But too much of it disrupted ecosystems in the Caribbean this May. Brian Barnes has written about it in a new report published this week by the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab. Barnes tells Host Carolyn Beeler that there’s no single scientific explanation for the explosive growth.

Japan's iconic terraced rice paddies are held in place by traditional stone walls. But the craft of building these walls is a dying art. Reporter Hannah Kirshner recently traveled to Fukuoka prefecture, in southern Japan, where she met a group dedicated to preserving agricultural practices, including stone wall building.

Shima's days of being in a manufactured J-Pop band in Tokyo are over. Now, she's doing things her way, with total creative control. Shima's real name is Tina Johnson. As a Japanese American musician, she's made the move to Los Angeles as an electronic solo artist. Host Carolyn  Beeler has more.

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces under former President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most horrific chemical attacks in recent history. One of them was in April 2018, on the outskirts of Damascus, where at least 43 people were killed. The World's Shirin Jaafari visits the site and speaks with survivors, who say they need psychological support.

Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia met today in Istanbul, Turkey, for peace talks on the heels of a spike in airstrikes between the two sides. As The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports from Istanbul, the delegations agreed to a major prisoner exchange, but no ceasefire.

A new report from Tibet Action Institute documents a pattern of physical abuse and neglect in Chinese-run boarding schools that many are forced to attend. The report alleges that the schools are designed to separate Tibetan children from their parents and away from their language and culture. Host Carolyn Beeler gets the details from the director of the institute, Lhadon Tethong, who is based in B...

A declaration of martial law. Impeachment. Months of protest and deep political divisions. That's what South Korea has been through over the last six months. Tomorrow, the country will vote for a new president. There's one clear frontrunner. But the political divide — along with big economic and security challenges — will remain, no matter who wins this election. The World's Matthew Bell has the s...

Poland has elected a new conservative nationalist as president in a major blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Karol Nawrocki won the election by a razor thin margin. The result threatens to derail Tusk’s promise to ease Poland’s near-total abortion ban and reform the country's judiciary. The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry joins Host Carolyn Beeler.