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The US Justice Department has indicted a member of the Japanese Yakuza crime syndicate for attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials. Takeshi Ebisawa allegedly showed samples of nuclear materials that had been transported from Myanmar to Thailand to an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Host Marco Werman speaks with Martina Baradel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Unive...

Argentina's new libertarian President Javier Milei enacted strict austerity measures in January in the hopes of bringing down high inflation. As a result, Argentines are paying higher prices while wages stagnate. Lautaro Grinspan reports from Buenos Aires that many are struggling to put food on the table, which has led to a rise in bartering, in person and online.

China's been the midst of a real estate crisis for years now. Investors are completely abandoning massive property developments across the country. The Wall Street Journal sent reporter Jonathan Cheng to explore one of the abandoned development. He spoke with host Carolyn Beeler about what he witnessed. 

Panda bears will return to the US again. The San Diego Zoo says it's signed an agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association to bring two bears over, as early as this summer. Host Marco Werman has more.

On Thursday, the foreign ministers of 26 European countries called for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas and urged Israel not to take military action in Rafah, Gaza. On Wednesday, the heads of 13 UN agencies and five other aid groups issued a joint plea for a ceasefire. They warn an attack on Rafah will bring “mass casualties.” Host Marco Werman has more.

President Joe Biden warned Russia in 2021 that it would face “devastating” consequences if opposition leader Alexei Navalny were to die in prison. The White House has vowed it will follow through on that pledge and is expected to announce new Russia sanctions on Friday. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland about Washington’s other opti...

Human rights defenders in Venezuela are concerned that the country might be entering into a more-intense phase of repression ahead of presidential elections later this year. Last week, the government arbitrarily detained a prominent activist and military expert. She's now charged with a plot to kill the president.

Underwater recordings made more than 50 years ago captured the complexity and beauty of sounds — songs — that humpback whales use for communication. But the mechanism by which they vocalize has only just been researched. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Magnus Wahlberg of the Southern University of Denmark. He is part of the research team that examined and manipulated the larynxes recovered from re...

Across Ukraine, school doesn't feel or look the same as it used to. Many have switched to remote learning. Where classes are held in person, students and teachers are used to going into shelters and continue learning. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, one school is fully operating underground, within the city's subway system. The World's Daniel Ofman paid a visit. 

The English have an enormous vocabulary for describing intoxication. A new report from German linguists Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz University of Technology) and Peter Uhrig (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) examined why British people have such a large number of words to express the idea of being drunk in a humorous way — so-called "drunkonyms" like “hammered” or “wasted” — and how n...

Hong Kong police are investigating a crime in which scammers, targeting an unnamed multinational corporation, used deepfake technology to imitate a chief financial officer and other staffers. Scraping data from publicly available video, the scam operation faked their voices and faces in a life-like way. Then, over a video chat, they instructed an employee to transfer $25 million into the criminals...

An Australian-led team of astronomers may have found the brightest object in the universe. It's a quasar, which shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun with a voracious black hole that powers it. Host Carolyn Beeler puts this intergalactic discovery into language we can all understand with Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale University who specializes in mapping dark matter and...

The war in Ukraine has forced millions of people to adapt in all sorts of creative ways. For soldiers who have lost a limb in battle, that can be especially tough. But some amputees have found their way back to sports, playing on the country's first soccer team for amputees. The World's Daniel Ofman reports from Lviv, Ukraine.

Online shoppers around the world can’t seem to get enough cheap consumer goods from the China-based platforms Temu and Shein. In fact, the two companies are taking up so much air-cargo space, they’re causing shipping costs to rise and derailing supply chains, as Reuters correspondent Arriana McLymore explains to The World’s host Marco Werman.

Asbestos, a highly carcinogenic material, has found its way into garden mulch in Australia that has been spread around Sydney's city gardens and play areas. To date, 47 schools and parks have been closed, with more closures expected. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports that environmental investigators have pinpointed the source, but they still don't know exactly how the mineral got into the mulch.

It’s been six weeks since Ecuador declared a state of "internal conflict." It allows for armed forces to treat criminal groups as military targets. The World’s Tibisay Zea spoke with residents of one of Ecuador's cities most impacted by insecurity, about the government's strategy.

The case of Julian Assange is back before Britain’s high court in what's likely to be the WikiLeaks founder's last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to the US. Assange is wanted by US authorities for disclosing secret military files in 2010 and 2011. He has already spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019, has been held in a high-security prison in the UK. The World's...

Over the weekend, Russia took control of the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. It followed a massive bombardment campaign by the Russian military that nearly encircled its Ukrainian adversaries. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, founder of the Silverado Policy Accelerator think tank, about what the loss means for Ukraine.

The former seaside resort of Varosha became the frontline during the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus in 1974. Today, it's in a disputed "neutral zone" between occupied Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island. Unable to develop the land, Turkish Cypriot authorities opened it to the public as a decaying museum. The World's Durrie Bouscaren takes us inside.

Alexei Navalny was very much the face of the opposition in Russia. Now that he has died in prison, will the movement he helped build, survive? Navalny's widow, who lives in exile, has vowed to carry on his work. The World's Marco Werman spoke to Mikhail Fishman, who is a Russian journalist and TV commentator for TV Rain.

Nearly two years into the war, the western city of Lviv has become the center for rehabilitation for Ukrainian soldiers injured on the front lines. The World's Daniel Ofman reports from one rehab center, where amputees are rebuilding their bodies and preparing to move on. Some say they may go back to fight.

In Haiti, a judge responsible for investigating the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moise, along with 50 others, accusing them of "complicity and criminal association." The judge in question, Walther Wesser Voltaire, is the fifth judge to lead the investigation, which has been mired in charges and countercharges since it began two years ago. Marco Werm...

The Department of Education released the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) last December. The new version was supposed to make applying for financial help easier. Instead, a glitch has prevented students, whose parents don't have social security numbers, from completing the application. WBEZ reporter Lisa Kurian Philip spoke to three high school seniors in Chicago, who are w...

The Givat Haviva International School seeks to transform the Middle East and beyond by developing a network of Jewish, Arab and international leaders who will work together toward an inclusive and democratic society. Reporter Rebecca Rosman found that despite the Israel-Hamas war, students are still able to be civil with one another and discuss how to coexist.

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