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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández faces decades in prison after a US jury found him guilty of conspiring to import cocaine into the US last week. Hondurans are asking why they had to go to the US to seek justice, as Steven Dudley, co-founder of InSight Crime tells The World’s Carolyn Beeler. 

It was a big night at the Oscars on Sunday for the blockbuster "Oppenheimer" that won the most awards. GBH with partners Associated Press also won an Oscar for best documentary for their film of a Ukrainian city under siege by the Russian military called "20 Days in Mariupol." Sound plays a big role in crafting any good film and one that was nominated in the best sound design category was "Society...

In the state of Kaduna in Nigeria's northwest, gunmen stormed into a rural town and rounded up 287 children and kidnapped them to the forest nearby. The circumstances of this kidnapping are different from one four days ago when rebel Islamist militants kidnapped around 200 women and children elsewhere in Nigeria's rural north. The World's Marco Werman talks with Philip Obaji Jr., a correspondent f...

Thursday night, President Joe Biden announced US plans to build a pier in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza's coast for delivery of aid. The project, in coordination with the European Union, will open a maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about the plans, and the unmet human needs in Gaza th...

Celebrated Japanese manga creator, Akira Toriyama, has died at the age of 68 in Japan. Toriyama died March 1 of a blood clot in his brain, his production company Bird Studio said in a statement on Friday. He's best known as the creator of the "Dragon Ball Z series," which was adapted for television in the 1990s. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Andrea Horbinski, author of an upcoming book called, "...

Last week in Turkey, seven women were killed by current or former spouses in a single day. The violence has galvanized women's rights groups, who say protections for women have been stripped away after Turkey pulled out of an international treaty to prevent violence against women. The Turkish government says it has a zero tolerance policy toward any abuse against women. But a planned march for Int...

The International Criminal Court has been using an old resolution from the UN Security Council on the Darfur region in Sudan in 2005, to investigate ongoing atrocities in the current conflict there. In a conversation with The World's Carolyn Beeler, Beth Van Schaack, the US ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, confirms that the United States is supporting the ICC investigation — this c...

There are about 900 American forces stationed in northeast Syria and since the start of Israel's war in Gaza, they have been attacked by militia forces in neighboring Iraq. The Americans act as a deterrence against ISIS and Turkey, both of which consider the Kurds in northeast Syria as their enemy. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on how the residents in this area are reacting to recent militia...

All week, The World has brought you an investigative series about orphanages, also known as children's homes, in Uganda. These homes have proliferated in the country, despite that, even in the best of circumstances, they are not considered healthy for children. The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi uncovered allegations of abuse and neglect at three children's homes, which are all founde...

National Geographic explorer Paul Salopek retraces the footsteps of the first humans to cross the Arabian Peninsula. He tells host Carolyn Beeler about the extreme contrasts between city and desert, bedouin tradition and modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Ten years ago on Friday, a flight took off from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. It was headed to Beijing. During the flight, the plane changed course, turning south toward the Indian Ocean. It's transponder was turned off midflight and was never heard from again. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the 239 people onboard remain missing. But their families never stopped searching. From Kuala Lumpu...

A woman’s duties are in the home according to the Irish constitution which was drawn up 87 years ago. On Friday, International Women's Day, voters in Ireland will decide if they want that article replaced. The Irish government has proposed changing the so-called "women in the home" clause with new wording that recognizes the value of the provision of care in the home "by members of a family." But...

President Joe Biden is set to announce a plan for a temporary port on the Gaza coast in his State of the Union address later on Thursday. The hope is this will help increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip during Israel's war against Hamas. There are no details of how it will be established or when it will be operational.

Calls are growing in Germany and across Europe to stop arms sales to Israel as the war continues in Gaza. Germany has increased its weapons exports to Israel tenfold since October and activists have staged protests outside factories here producing weapons. They're also using a new tactic they hope will stop the arms transfers — lawfare — taking governments to local and international courts in the...

Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO on Thursday. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken presided at a ceremony on Thursday at the State Department in Washington. Host Carolyn Beeler explains why it took two years for the process to reach conclusion.

Military regimes in the West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso had what many called a “Brexit” moment in January, when they severed ties from the regional alliance known as the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS. Now their militaries are uniting in an effort to jointly fight Islamist militants, as Leeds Beckett University lecturer Olayinka Ajala explains to The World...

Morocco's drought is forcing the government there to take action. And now, it's impacting the country's cultural heritage in the hammam, or public bathhouse. The government has ordered hammams to shut down for three days a week in order to save water. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Mohammed El Hamzaoui, an Arabic language lecturer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, about his exp...

This week, The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has been bringing us stories about the dark side of orphanages, or children's homes, in Uganda. Decades of research around the world has shown that orphanages can have negative effects on children's development, which is why the US largely phased them out. Still, Americans continue to send money to these homes around the world, which exper...

The annual State of the Union Address is on Thursday night, and by tradition the president and lawmakers will have invited guests in the visitor's gallery for the speech. Host Carolyn Beeler explains the guests include people who underscore global issues that the Biden administration is confronting.

Would you relocate to a Scottish Island for the princely sum of $190,000 a year? Well, if you're an MD and want to try something adventurous, Britain's National Health Service is looking for five GP's to serve the population of 5,700 on the islands of Uist and Benbekula in the Outer Hebrides. There are stunning landscapes and beautiful beaches, an outdoor paradise. The catch? You will make house c...

The movie "Oppenheimer" is expected to win big at the Academy Awards this weekend. But one point of controversy in the film is that the director did not depict any images of the devastating aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, which ended World War II. Getting those images out to the public was a longtime quest for Herbert Sussan, one of the filmmakers...

Today Spain's data regulation agency put a temporary ban on Worldcoin's global scheme to scan people's irises in exchange for roughly $80 of its new cryptocurrency and a unique digital ID. Privacy experts worry that people are sharing their biometric data for quick money while exposing themselves to major risks. Host Carolyn Beeler has the details. 

Taylor Swift's Eras tour has rocked the world, even causing a literal earthquake. The economic value of Swifties converging on a city for a concert has countries vying for the opportunity. This week, that country is Singapore and politicians from other countries across the region including the Philippines and Thailand have been outraged. Singapore will be the only stop in Southeast Asia on the Era...

A United Nations team this week said it found convincing evidence that some hostages taken into Gaza on Oct. 7 were subjected to sexual violence And that there was “reasonable grounds” to believe the remaining hostages are still facing such violence in captivity. Israelis are preparing for the worst, including the possibility that some of the female hostages may be pregnant as Rebecca Rosman repor...

For the past two decades, geologists have wrestled with whether humans have changed the planet to declare a geological period called the anthropocene. On Tuesday, news reports emerged that a committee of scientists voted "no." Host Carolyn Beeler tells the story.