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Later this week,  jazz fans in Haiti will once again gather for the 17th annual “PapJazz” festival. The event draws enthusiasts from across the island, as well as international jazz aficionados. From the Haitian capital, festival organizer Milena Sandler speaks with host Marco Werman.  

Libia Guzman served in the Venezuela military. But when she was told that her orders would include shooting people, she refused. To avoid prosecution, she fled her country. It was a perilous journey. Guzman sheltered first with family and then with strangers. At one point, the group she was with was kidnapped. Now safely in Colorado, she told her story to Aspen Public Radio. 

The skulls of two Tongan males stored in the Australian Museum in Sydney have been repatriated to their present-day descendants. The remains were laid to rest at a funeral service in Tonga, attended by the royal family.

Did the song "We Are The World" actually make the world better? A new making-of documentary, debuting at Sundance, is cause for reflection on what the original video did and didn't do for hungry people across Africa and in the US. The World's Gerry Hadden reports. 

In Ayodhya in northern India, a new temple stands in the spot where a mosque stood until December 1992, when it was torn down by a Hindu mob. The attack sparked riots across South Asia killing thousands and is considered the most violent incident since India's partition. Sushmita Pathak reports on what the new Ram temple means for local Hindus and Muslims, and Indian politics.

The situation in Haiti over the past four years has been full of twists and turns. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in 2021, leading to the country's social and political fabric being picked apart by gangs. Their rise is remarkable, their influence is undeniable. In the coming month, it's possible that Kenyan troops will be deployed to the island — sent there by Kenya's president,...

In 1972, 11 members of Israel's Olympic delegation were killed at the Munich Games. What happened at the Munich Massacre, as it’s known, continues to worry Israeli athletes. Those concerns are now top of mind for the Israeli delegation headed to Qatar for the World Aquatics Championships next month. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Turkish breakfast is famous for having many little dishes that completely cover the table and take over an hour to eat. (They say the more plates there are, the more your grandma loves you.) It's physically impossible to finish everything, but it's also one of the most delicious experiences you will likely ever have. Critics call it wasteful — everything you don't eat ends up tossed in the bin. Fr...

The South African government said on Friday that it would continue its attempt to stop items that once belonged to Nelson Mandela from being sold by members of his family, namely his eldest daughter. While she says the sale of the 75 items, which include Mandela's hearing aids and gifts from world leaders, will fund a memorial garden in her father's honor, the government wants the items to be kept...

In the Niigata Prefecture in central Japan, some women are getting out their marital frustrations by watching their husbands get thrown down a snowy slope. According to Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV, the tradition is part of an annual winter festival, and it's aimed at strengthening the bond between married couples. The World's co-hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have more.

The rate at which journalists who are covering the war in Gaza are being killed is "alarming," says press freedom group Reporters Without Borders. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on the high cost of covering the war.

Climate change continues to adversely affect the infectious disease situation across the globe. Countries like Zambia, Bangladesh and Sudan are seeing a rise in infectious disease cases as they battle climate change. Cholera and dengue fever are two examples of such diseases. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, head of the Climate Change and Health unit at the World Health Or...

Some positive news from the World Health Organization this week: Smoking rates continue to decline around the globe. The most recent data from 2022 show about 1 in 5 adults around the world use tobacco. A little more than two decades ago, the figure was about 1 in 3.

The US carried out new attacks against the Houthis in Yemen, its fourth in the past few days. The Houthis are supported by Iran, which has also supported various militia groups across the Middle East. The World speaks with US Deputy Special Envoy for Iran Abram Paley.

A Salvadoran woman known as “Lilian” has been freed from prison after she was convicted of crimes linked to an abortion. Michelle Oberman, an attorney and the author of "Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma," speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about how strict abortion bans cast miscarriage as a potential crime.

Early this morning, Pakistan's military carried out attacks inside of Iran targetting militants. It follows Iran's strikes on militants in Pakistan. Both attacks occurred in Balochistan which is an ethnic region shared by the two countries. Host Carolyn Beeler spoke with Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, to understand the motives behind Iran's attack and...

Japan Airlines (JAL) named its first female president on Wednesday. Mitsuko Tottori started out at the airline as a flight attendant in 1985 and worked her way up. Japan has a deep gender gap in the workplace, especially in leadership positions. Marco Werman speaks about the significance of Tottori's promotion with Akiko Takeyama, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and the directo...

In the Chinese American community in New York City, almost half of older adults are living in poverty, and paying rent is tough. Particularly given the gentrification of New York City's traditional Chinatown in lower Manhattan. Ashley Milne-Tyte caught up with some of these seniors and agencies trying to helping them.

The British Prime Minister has called it “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation's history." Over a 15-year period, more than 900 managers of post offices across the UK were wrongly accused of theft and false accounting because of a glitch in an IT system operated by the Japanese firm Fujitsu. Some postal workers were jailed, others left bankrupt, and a number took their own liv...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is leaning on the House of Lords to pass his controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The House of Commons passed the measure on Wednesday. There's deep skepticism that the plan will work, both in Sunak's own party and among his political opponents. 

Ever since the military threw out Myanmar's democratically elected government in 2021, armed resistance groups have been battling to oust them. In the past few months, small armies of ethnic groups have taken over towns along the Indian and Chinese borders. China has been backing the junta but as Myanmar's military losses mount, Beijing has started to support the other players. The World's Patrick...

This week, the civil war in Sudan entered its ninth month. The fighting between Sudan’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary militia broke out last April following tensions over integrating the two forces. Those plans were part of an effort to transition Sudan to a civilian-led democracy after years of dictatorship. Now, the country is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian e...

The United States put Yemen's Houthi rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists on Wednesday. The designation is part of an effort to the militants' attacks on global shipping. 

Independence-minded Catalan parties in Spain's ruling coalition have come out swinging in 2024. They're demanding control of borders and immigration for their northeast region. And they want to set a date for a controversial second referendum on forming their own country. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona. 

Scientists with the Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise team or IMBIE are alarmed at the rate of melting for Greeland's ice sheet. Host Marco Werman spoke with Andrew Shephard, co-leader of the IMBIE team, about the factors behind the accelerating rate of melting in Greenland and what it means for future weather patterns.