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Istanbul-based musician, Ayfer Düzdaş, has spent 25 years traveling through southeastern Anatolian villages, documenting Kurdish folk songs. In a new album, she arranges vanishing melodies into full-ensemble pieces, artfully incorporating traditional techniques for the modern ear. Despite challenges performing her work in Turkey, she hopes to share Kurdish music with a new generation of listeners....

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned heart medication weeks the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijng, though it was only revealed during the competition. At the time, the International Olympic Committee took the unprecedented step of canceling the medal ceremony until Valieva’s case was resolved. But as The World’s Bianca Hillier reports, that has still not happened.

Saudi Arabia and Israel have never had official diplomatic relations, but the US is making an offer to pave the way for that. Saudi Arabia would enter into a mutual defense agreement with the United States for if they were attacked. But where that leaves the issue of Palestinian statehood, could be complicated. The World's Carol Hills talks with Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Gulf...

In Ukraine, discussion of the country’s role in the Holocaust is taboo. While some nationalists did collaborate with Nazis in the 1940s, broaching this subject in any capacity is politically explosive at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is falsely claiming Ukraine still has Nazi sympathies. Filmmaker Dana Kavelina, however, believes exploring the role Ukrainians played in the death of...

Europe’s rewilding efforts are seeing spectacular successes in Spain, where wild horses run free and vultures are once again circling the remote canyons of one of Europe’s least-populated areas. And now, an organization called Rewilding Spain has reintroduced “back-bred” cattle from nearly 10,000 years ago. Gerry Hadden reports that rewilding is helping forests and creating jobs.

Student loan bills are soon going out to some 40 million Americans after a three-year hiatus. Check out The World's series on how students across the globe pay for college and university. Go to  TheWorld.org  and click on "Global Classroom."

It started out as way for idealistic young people to do good and change the world. But with countries producing their own college graduates and even poor farmers connected by cellphones, is the Peace Corps still relevant? The World's Carol Hills puts that question to Alana DeJoseph, the director of The Towering Task, her documentary on the Peace Corps airs on many PBS stations tonight.

A new study suggests the first cowboys were not actually Europeans in the Americas but enslaved Africans. That's based on a new DNA analysis of 400-year-old cattle from Mexico and Hispaniola (modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Host Carol Hills speaks with study author Nicholas Delsol about how the study challenges conventional wisdom around the first cowboys. 

A lot of the news about the Sahel region in West Africa these days is about the horrific violence caused by terrorist groups. A new film about that crisis had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. "Sira," by Burkinabe filmmaker Apolline Traoré, tells the story of one woman's journey to survive and seek vengeance after a terrorist attack. It was...

A suspected suicide bomb blast during a procession to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad has left more than 50 people dead and many more wounded in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. It was not the only attack on Friday. Host Carol Hills speaks with Asfandyar Mir, a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace, about the growing instability in Pakistan caused by ISIS and the P...

To this day, Japan is home to a large population of so-called Zainichi Koreans, who can trace their ancestry back to Japan’s decades long occupation of Korea, before and during World War II. Musician Sasami Ashworth grew up in the US, but this history and her family upbringing echoes in ger music. As part of The World's regular collaboration with the podcast “Movement,” host Meklit Hadero talks wi...

Artificial intelligence programs can now do everything from writing a term paper to catching financial fraudsters or suggesting your next Netflix movie. Artists are also using it to create digital images that can reimagine or critique the physical world. The World's Durrie Bouscaren brings us the story of Turkish artist Sarp Kerem Yavuz. 

Switzerland has the largest number of glaciers in Europe but they're melting fast. Over just the past two years, a total of 10% of their ice volume has disappeared. That's the same amount of loss experienced between 1960 and 1990. Host Marco Werman speaks with Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network and a glaciologist who took part in the research, which was just reported by a...

For years, the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice was a strong voice in The Hague for victims of gender violence in places like northern Uganda, where rebel leader Joseph Kony terrorized the local population. Now, its former director, Brigid Inder, is being accused of funding him behind the scenes. Inder once served as a special adviser to the former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The World's...

Host Marco Werman gets introduced by his ride-share driver to the big hit in Haiti right now: "Dlo Dous" or "Sweet Water" in Haitian Creole. It's a Caribbean dance ode to making love by the band Zafem.

China is home to the world's largest high-speed rail network. And it's about to get even bigger. The country's launching a new high-speed system that will cut across bodies of water and along the coast of Fujian province in the country's southeast. Host Marco Werman speaks with William C. Vantuono, editor-in-chief of Railway Age magazine, about why the US remains so behind Europe and China when it...

The main US base in Antarctica has two bars, and come Sunday, they will stop serving alcohol. The National Science Foundation said the change at McMurdo Station is about morale and welfare. But it comes amid accusations of sexual harassment and assault at McMurdo, as host Marco Werman explains.

Every year, in late summer, the scorching hillsides of Calabria, Italy, are the site of an unusual tradition: rabbis crawling around the base of citrus trees, examining their roots and weighing their fruit. They're here to find the perfect etrog — a kind of citron that is the ceremonial centerpiece for the annual feast of Sukkot. John Last went with a group of rabbis on the annual inspection tour...

The leader of the breakaway Armenian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh says the enclave will dissolve its state institutions on Jan. 1. Residents have been streaming out of the mountainous enclave since Azerbaijan seized control of it last week. Thomas de Waal, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment,  wrote about  "The End of Nagorno-Karabakh" for Foreign Affairs. De Wall speaks with host Marco W...

The new opera, "Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable," had its world premiere in Boston over the weekend. The story is based on an ancient Chinese folk tale and uses modern and diverse cultural elements to create a unique rendition of the popular fable. The World's Sara Hassan reports.

Researchers digging into Spain's past have found a way to identify foreign fighters who died there during the Spanish Civil War. Hundreds of members of the International Brigades, from Germany, Austria, and other parts of Europe, have remained anonymous for nearly a century, but now, researchers are finally able to start identifying some of them. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

The UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman spoke in Washington DC yesterday, raising a number of questions about the role of the United Nations' Refugee Convention in the context of current global displacement challenges. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Karen Jacobsen, professor of global migration at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, about the 1951 International Refugee Convention and its rele...

The hill tribes of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam are known for their colorful and intricate weavings and embroidery. Global fashion brands are among those who have helped themselves to the distinct patterns, replicating the designs but never paying royalties. A nonprofit collective in Laos has now pulled together the most egregious examples. From Bangkok, The World's Patrick Winn say they hope to sh...

The number of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally is up again, on track to match, or even beat, previous records. Because of this influx, Mexico and US authorities have taken new measures that are impacting commercial trading across the border. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with The World's Tibisay Zea.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned to Earth from the international space station today. He was in continuous space flight for 371 days — a record for US astronauts. Rubio's return along with Russian cosmonauts comes at a time when US-Russia relations are in question. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Christopher D. Johnson, a space law advisor at the Secure World Foundation.