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Ecuador’s prison system has long been the main theater of violence in the country, with hundreds of prisoners killed in recent years as members of competing criminal gangs fight for power. It's just one example of self-governing prisons, that are common across Latin America, and lead to mixed outcomes. The World's Tibisay Zea reports.

On Tuesday in Canada, new regulations took effect that require health warning labels on individual cigarettes. "Poison in every puff" is one of them. Canada is the first country in the world to take this step and it's part of the country’s goal to drop its nationwide tobacco use to less than 5% by 2035. Marco Werman speaks with Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst at the Canadian Cancer Society. 

Two microscopic worms, nematodes, were brought to life after being frozen deep in Siberian permafrost for an estimated 46,000 years. The discovery was published last week in the scientific journal PLOS Genetics. Host Marco Werman tells the story of these time-traveling worms, and the research they are inspiring today.

Nearly 1 1/2 years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its impact has been felt most acutely in lost lives, flattened cities and destroyed infrastructure. But the environmental damage from combat has also contaminated Ukraine’s soil, water and air, at a cost the government is  estimating  to be $56 billion. This impact is likely to be one of the longest-lasting legacies of the war, persi...

Self-taught musician Arthur Verocai has never toured the US, and he arrives this week for four special dates in which he and a 30-piece orchestra will reprise live his 1973 self-titled recording, an album that was influential on not just a generation of artists from Brazil, but has also been discovered in later years by the hip-hop world as a sampling source of compelling and unique sounds. Host M...

Deborah Bonello joins The World's Marco Werman to discuss her new book “ Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels ,” which profiles women's power in organized crime throughout Latin America.

China’s seen incredible growth over the last 50 years — and with that, major changes in the country’s diet and agriculture. With 1.4 billion people to feed and a party narrative to upkeep, President Xi Jinping is pushing the country to invest in its own food security. During a time when tensions between the US and China are rising, we look at how Great Power Competition is unfolding in America’s c...

The blast that killed dozens at a political rally in Pakistan this weekend exposed the deepening rivalries between the country’s powerful militant groups. Officials say ISIS is responsible for the explosion. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Ayesha Siddiqa, a senior fellow at King's College, London about what’s behind the deadly feuds. 

Tensions are high over police violence in the southern French city of Marseille. A young man who was allegedly brutally attacked by police officers in June is now telling his story. A police officer remains in detention while the investigation proceeds. Meanwhile police are protesting the detention, saying they are the victims. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from France, on the national conversa...

Germany’s famed Black Forest is getting greener. That may sound like a good thing, but it’s actually a problem because of the loss of biodiversity. Emily Haavik reports from the Black Forest, where researchers are studying the unique ecosystem of the bog and its specialized plants.

A series of drone attacks in Moscow Sunday brought the war closer to Russian citizens. Although Ukraine has not taken responsibility, President Volodomyr Zelenskiy said afterward that attacks on Russian territory are an “inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process” in the war which has ravaged Ukraine for nearly 18 months. Host Marco Werman speaks with Samuel Bendett of the Center for Naval An...

International condemnation for last week's military coup in Niger continued to grow over the weekend. West African leaders have threatened economic sanctions, travel bans, and possible use of force if the president is not reinstated within a week. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World's Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi about the wave of military coups in the Sahel region and the broader impli...

Stories From The Stage are about ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. In partnership with WGBH's TV World Channel, today's storyteller is Nimisha Ladva. She's a professor, originally from Kenya and the UK, who now lives and works in the US. Ladva's story is about how she dates outside her Indian culture and against her parents' wishes.

In the massive migration of people out of Venezuela, more than half a million have ended up in Ecuador. Many LGBTQ Venezuelans chose to settle in that country because gay marriage is legal there. But as Gisele Regatão reports, they have ended up facing discrimination on multiple levels.

El Salvador's Congress has passed legislation that would allow up to 900 people to be tried together for the same gang affiliation. This has raised questions about due process, specifically the right to a fair trial. It's the latest salvo in President Nayib Bukele's campaign against gangs in the country.

Since early in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a number of media outlets have been trying to determine the precise number of Russian soldiers who have died during the war in Ukraine. They've used multiple methods, like tracking social media posts, documenting local government announcements, and even visiting cemeteries. Now they're using a statistical model based on excess deaths, similar...

After the armistice that created North and South Korea, the countries were in ruins. Hundreds of thousands of children were left orphans. Initially, church groups were rescuing orphans but over several decades it turned into a massive business enterprise. Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by a white American family when she was 8. The division between North and South is the same kinds of se...

The monthlong Gion Matsuri festival has been a mainstay of Kyoto culture for 1,000 years. But the COVID-19 pandemic put the celebration on hiatus. This year, crowds have thronged the city streets to watch its famous parade floats and performances. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Monica Narang, an American who teaches English and is a photographer in Kyoto, and has been attending events all mon...

A court in Hong Kong has rejected an attempt by the local government to ban the unofficial anthem of the pro-democracy movement. The World's Carol Hills spoke to Eric Yan-ho Lai, a visiting researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London. Though it might seem like a victory for freedom of expression, Lai said the government had other tools to crack down on free speech.

President Joe Biden has given the green light for the US to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on its investigation into alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The decision is a reversal of the Washington's previous stance on the ICC. In 2020, the Trump administration sanctioned the ICC’s chief prosecutor, who was investigating allegations of war crimes committed by US troops in Afgha...

In the West African country of Senegal, hip-hop went from being merely a fad to an influential force for social change. For our summer "Planet Hip Hop" series, the World’s Tibisay Zea reports from Dakar about the evolution of Senegalese rap.

On Wednesday, Japan released new population numbers. The figures aren't positive, if you're the government. For the first time, the country saw a decline in population across all 47 of its prefectures last year. In total, the population fell by around 800,000. The World's host Marco Werman spoke to Jake Adelstein in Japan, the author of Tokyo Vice, a memoir about his time on the crime beat in the...

In recent years, a number of endangered North Atlantic right whales have been found entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada. That's because they're straying further to find feeding grounds, but protections aren't yet in place for them in those areas. This matters because there are only about 350 right whales left on the planet. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Amy...

Tributes to Sinéad O'Connor, who was found dead on Wednesday in her London home, poured in today. "Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare," wrote Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on his social media account. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Europe correspondent Orla Barry, who was born and raised in Ireland.

On this day, July 27, in 1953, the United Nations and North Korea signed a ceasefire, bringing an end to three years of fighting on the Korean Peninsula that killed more than 36,000 US soldiers and an estimated 2 million Korean civilians. But a formal peace agreement was never signed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with David Kang, professor of international relations at the University of So...