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Chinese authorities have sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers to more than a decade in prison, each on subversion charges. Sophie Luo Shengchun, wife of jailed dissident Ding Jiaxi, speaks with The World’s Marco Werman. 

Uganda recently passed a law that criminalizes homosexuality, punishable by death, sparking outrage and condemnation from many. LGBTQ people and human rights advocates in other African countries fear that the Ugandan law may empower anti-LGBTQ movements elsewhere on the continent. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from Ghana, which has been debating a similar bill since 2021. 

The British government wantw to lower smoking rates in England below 5% by 2030. To do that, they're launching a "swap to stop" campaign to get 1 million smokers to swap their cigarettes for e-cigarettes by giving them a free vaping kit. Marco Werman speaks with Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an associate professor of evidence-based policy and practice at Oxford University with a focus on addiction and smo...

President Joe Biden begins a four-day trip to Ireland on Tuesday, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The 1998 deal aimed to bring to an end three decades of violence in Northern Ireland. But in the past month, the terrorism level in the region was raised to severe, and in Derry on Monday, police came under attack during a march by dissident Irish Republicans. The Wo...

On Tuesday, a court in South Africa will begin hearing arguments that could impact the status of 160,000 people from neighboring Zimbabwe who live in the country. This follows an announcement last year by South Africa that the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits scheme would not be renewed after June. Loren Landau, professor of Migration and Development at Oxford University and a researcher, speaks with Th...

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres is visiting Somalia as part of a UN effort to support the drought-stricken nation. Nearly 5 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity, according to the UN. The World's Marco Werman reports that the UN is calling on richer nations to help Somalia, pointing to climate change caused by richer nations as the source of the drought.

Two months after devastating earthquakes killed more than 57,000 people in Turkey and Syria, survivors are living in tent camps and shipping containers outside the ruins of their former homes. As mobile businesses and streetside kebab shops return to the city of Antakya, the World's Durrie Bouscaren reports that people are determined to stay in their hometowns. 

This month, scientists in India and Germany have published results of research in which they trained artificial intelligence to listen to the voices of people to determine whether they have a cold. Host Marco Werman tells how researchers are now able to detect not only the common cold, but also many other conditions from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s.

Companies doing some of the most cutting edge work in A-I are in China. Alibaba just released a new AI chatbot called Tongyi Qianwen, or "truth from a thousand questions." But China is clamping down on them, fearing it could undermine Beijing's "state control." 

The inspiration for the album title 'Traveling Medicine Man' comes from Bai Kamara, Jr.'s maternal grandfather who was born in Sierra Leone. He was educated by Protestant missionaries and later traveled with them to help provide medical care to villagers and townspeople. Host Marco Werman plays us a track from the new album.

People in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as part of ancient rituals, a new study has concluded. Key to the study's conclusions were 3,000-year-old hairs found in a burial cave in Menorca off the coast of Spain. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Benjamin Breen, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, about the study's conclusions and what we can learn...

Pakistani-Canadian Iman Vellani had a extraordinarily memorable last day of high school. Not only did she graduate, but she also got the call of her life: She got the role of Kamala Khan, Marvel's first Muslim superhero. Here's The World's Bianca Hillier story from last year.

For decades, India has depended on Russia for its weapons supply. It's the cornerstone of the two countries' ties, which go back to the Soviet era. But it can also be a liability, as India found out last week when it learned that a major shipment of Russian arms had fallen through because of the war in Ukraine. Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi on the significance of arms in India's complicat...

It's a mystery leak. In March, secret US government documents started circulating on the social media platform Discord, which is widely used by video game enthusiasts to chat with one another. These documents were no game, though. They contained state secrets on the war in Ukraine, including what the US has learned from spying on its own allies. No one knows who the source of it all is. Host Marco...

Sri Lanka’s currency is gaining strength, inflation is starting to slowly tick downward and the daily power cuts and long lines to buy gasoline are a thing of the past. The first tranche of funding from the International Monetary Fund was transferred into government coffers late last month. But after the island nation's economic and political collapse last summer, prices for electricity and fuel,...

In 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a 44-day war in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Since then, sporadic violence has flared up there. And some Armenians say another round of war is inevitable. There's one weapon used by Azerbaijan's military that makes Armenians especially nervous, and that's the Bayraktar TB2 drones. Levi Bridges reports from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

Saudi officials traveled to Yemen's capital, Sana'a, on Sunday for direct talks with Houthi rebel leaders. The public nature of the Saudis' arrival signals a new chapter in the effort to forge peace in Yemen's long civil war. But as Osamah Al-Rawhani, executive director of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, tells host Marco Werman, while Yemenis are generally exhausted by the war, few have m...

Benjamin Ferencz — who grew up poor on the Lower East Side of New York City, scrubbed army toilets during World War II and then went on to prosecute the largest war crimes trial in history — has died at at the age 103. He was just 27 when he collected evidence from liberated camps and then prosecuted Nazis for war crimes. He was a vocal advocate for establishing the international rule of law. The...

Migrants from as far south as Chile are walking north to the United States, hoping for a better life. But before they make it to that border, they must make it across Mexico's southern border. As Michael Fox reports from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, that's becoming more and more difficult.

US officials are struggling to keep up with the increasing number of migrants arriving at the southern border and seeking asylum. So, beginning this week, asylum officers will screen a small number of migrants at the border in temporary facilities. The new system raises concerns about due process and access to legal counsel. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Lee Gelernt, a deputy director...

Guatemala has one of the world's most vibrant celebrations of Holy Week, or Semana Santa. There's a tradition of creating elaborate, colorful flower "carpets" out of sawdust on the streets for processions to pass over. Last year, UNESCO named Guatemala a world heritage site for its Holy Week commemorations. From the town of Antigua, Michael Fox meets a young man leading a team of friends in making...

The beating heart of village life in Spain is the local bar, and many of these establishments need urgent life support. That's why Spanish politicians have voted to offer the watering holes public subsidies. Their reasoning: bars serve much more than beer. They’re meeting halls, day care facilities, and recreation centers — all of which, they argue, are public services worthy of government funding...

Online bank hacks sponsored by North Korea’s military intelligence bureau hauled in a record-breaking $1.2 billion in 2022, according to the United Nations. That's roughly double what the hackers made in ill-gotten gains from the previous year. North Korean hackers are now the "world's leading bank robbers," according to US officials, and their hacking skills are constantly evolving. The World's P...

The Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998, was a remarkable achievement and brought an end to the 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland known as the troubles. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Irish author and journalist Dearbhail McDonald about the massive effort to get Northern Ireland’s unionist and nationalist leaders to share power and the impact the agreement had on daily life...

The United Nations said this week that it has been informed by the Taliban that its female employees can no longer work in the country. The UN demanded the order be rescinded, saying that women are essential to providing services in Afghanistan. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on the widespread condemnation of the ruling.