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Naomi Girma is a star defender on the soccer field. In college, she helped lead Stanford University to a national championship. In her first year as a professional in the National Women's Soccer League, she won both the Rookie of the Year and Defender of the Year honors. And last week, she made her World Cup debut for the US. The World's Bianca Hillier reports that Girma's success began with a sma...

Details are still unclear, but it appears that President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger was ejected by a group of military officers, who claim an intervention in the government was needed. The World's host Marco Werman talks with Alex Thurston, at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, who has done field research all across West Africa. Thurston discusses what hap...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told African leaders gathered for a summit in St. Petersburg today that his government would provide grain shipments to six African nations for free. The plan is to help prevent a food shortage caused by Putin's decision to pull out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative last week. "We are taking maximum efforts to avert a global food crisis,” Putin said. From Nairobi,...

The Belgian musical duo Charlotte & Bolis tackle some of the hot button issues of our time with infectious dance tracks. Their 2022 album Topical Dancer took on weighty subjects like colonialism, representation, xenophobia and political correctness in playful dance tunes. Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul spoke to The World's collaborator Meklit Hadero, host of the Movement series.

Russia is no longer part of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and has resumed its blockade of ships carrying food from Ukraine to countries where it's desperately needed. Moscow is also attacking grain terminals and infrastructure at the Black Sea port of Odesa. Are these violations of international law? The World's Marco Werman speaks with Catriona Murdoch, a partner at Global Rights Compliance, whi...

Dr. Alexander Tenorio manages a network of doctors in the San Diego area who are on call to care for individuals who climb the 18-foot border wall and then fall on the US side, where they are treated in local hospitals. The World's Marco Werman reports that more injuries are predicted as the border wall is now being raised in many parts to 30 feet.

Ninety thousand. That’s the number of migrants and asylum-seekers that have arrived in New York City since the Spring of 2022. Now, Mayor Eric Adams is asking those who are planning to head north to consider another city to settle in as there is "no guarantee the city will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals." The World’s Maria Elena Romero reports the warning is leaving many c...

Swimming in the Seine was banned in 1923 due to high levels of pollution in the water. Now, a century later, city officials have reportedly spent over $1 billion to clean up the river ahead of the summer Olympics in Paris, which start in exactly one year. The World's Bianca Hillier reports on how they've done.

A well-known education activist has been in detention in Afghanistan since March. Matiullah Wesa had been fighting for education for Afghan children for more than a decade, mainly in remote areas of the country. The World's Shirin Jaafari speaks with his brother and one of his friends who say they are concerned about his safety and well being.

Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who was elected last fall on a conservative populist platform, meets with President Joe Biden on Thursday. The two leaders could not be more different on issues such as human rights and immigration. The World's European correspondent Orla Barry examines what Meloni hopes to get out of her first official visit to the White House.

The blistering temperatures we've been reporting on across the globe are not just in the air, but in the ocean too. Buoys off the southern tip of Florida registered water temperatures of 100 and 101 degrees on Sunday and Monday. Meteorologists say this could be the hottest seawater ever recorded anywhere, exceeding the prior record set in the waters off Kuwait three summers ago. The World's Marco...

The FSO Safer is an oil tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen that has fallen into dangerous disrepair. The huge quantity of oil aboard could leak, or it could explode. The UN has organized a mission to prevent a nightmare scenario by siphoning the oil out and onto a new ship. The World's Marco Werman talks to David Gressly, the UN Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen who has spearhe...

It was good news when scientists announced in April they had discovered pristine and thriving deep-sea coral reefs off the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. Now, some researchers are looking to them to learn what might protect other reefs from suffering from further climate change damage. Vera Haller reports from Santa Cruz Island on all the different research projects that the reef discovery has made...

Two decades after militias slaughtered hundreds of thousands in Darfur, researchers are working to prevent a repeat of the violence. Nathaniel Raymond of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab is pairing photographic evidence with on-the-ground intelligence in a new partnership with the US State Department. Dina Temple-Raston of the podcast, “Click Here,” profiles the team's work.

Researchers believe that the H5N1 virus, avian flu, may have killed millions of wild birds globally as the outbreak ravages South America. The World's Marco Werman speaks with William Schaffner, professor of medicine at the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center about the spread of the disease which has now been reported on every continent except Oceania and Antarc...

In the day and age of the internet, satellite communications and advanced technology, Bob Romanko still enjoys his chats with people around the world on his ham radio. From Virginia Public Radio, Sandy Hausman reports on a hobby that has united people across the globe for more than a hundred years. 

Every summer, the Antarctic ice sheets recede as they melt, and every winter they regrow when the temperature drops. Not this winter. Recent observations and data show the ice is not regrowing. The World's Marco Werman talks with Ted Scambos, senior research scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder about this unprecedented departure from the Antarctic's normal ice patterns. 

About 2,500 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Iceland since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, continuing at a rate of around 200 per month. Iceland shines when it comes to helping them settle. It gives the Ukrainians nearly instant residency as refugees, on humanitarian grounds, and a host of other support. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from the capital, Reykjavik.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to head for China in October to attend the "One Belt, One Road" forum, the Kremlin announced on Tuesday. Putin decided not to attend the BRIC economic summit in South Africa because there is an international warrant out for his arrest.

Exactly one month after Qin Gang disappeared from public view, on Tuesday, his removal and his successor was announced in Chinese state media. No explanation was given. The sometimes outspoken foreign minister was last seen in public on June 25. The World's Marco Werman speaks to Jeff Wasserstrom, professor of history at UC Irvine to learn more about Gang's mysterious removal.

Paul Singer, investigations editor at the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, joins The World's Carol Hills to discuss his latest investigation, in collaboration with journalism students at Boston University, of Boston's Freedom Trail, and its links to slave trade and international labor.

On Monday, the UN group that organizes international response to conflicts on the Korean Peninsula said it has started a conversation with North Korea about a US soldier's whereabouts. Private Travis King ran across a militarized border into North Korea last week. Host Carol Hills has details.

Thousands of Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine have fled their country. But many are viewed with skepticism in the countries in which they have landed. Levi Bridges talked to a handful of anti-war Russians who are having a hard time getting residency and work permits in other countries in Central Asia and the EU.

The mayor of Manta, Ecuador's third-largest city, was murdered on Sunday. While the motive remains unclear, the killing comes amid a serious outbreak of violence that authorities attribute to disputes among organized crime groups. Host Carol Hills speaks with Sebastian Hurtado, president of Prófitas, a political risk consultancy firm in Quito, about the murder and the growing problem of violence i...

Since the start of the Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many European countries have been trying to find ways to reduce their dependency on Russian energy. One place they’re starting to look is West Africa, where Senegal and Mauritania are capitalizing on recent discoveries of natural gas. But many locals are wondering how much they will benefit from their own country’s resources. The Worl...