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The cost of living in Spain is soaring, as it is across Europe. Spanish food prices have jumped 17% in the last month alone. Health-conscious consumers, like everyone else, are struggling to stretch their paychecks, with many turning their backs on their usual go-to organic foods. As Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona, the ecofriendly food industry is taking a hit.

A new United Nations report shows that global production of cocaine has gone up by 35% after an initial lull caused by the pandemic. The Global Report on Cocaine 2023 also shows that drug cartels are expanding into markets in Asia and Africa and developing transport hubs in Africa to get their product to those more remote corners of the globe. Marco Werman speaks with Antoine Vella, a researcher a...

In the past five years, more than 7 million Venezuelans have fled their home country’s political chaos and economic collapse. Many have arrived at the US border to seek asylum, but many others have gone to various countries in South America. Reporter Gisele Regatão visited the home of one family who has settled in the city of São Paulo. 

This week, officials in El Salvador sent 2,000 additional suspected criminals to a massive new prison built to hold people connected with criminal gangs. Many of the suspects have not been tried. Supporters of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s tough anti-gang policies say his approach has made the country safer. Steven Dudley of Insight Crime speaks with The World’s Marco Werman.

Thailand has a new cultural export attracting fans across Asia. They’re soap operas with a twist: both romantic leads must be male, called “B-L dramas." That's short for boy love. The TV shows are primarily written by women with other heterosexual women in mind. Fans of the popular genre prefer two male heartthrob leads. The shows are very PG, with hand holding, longing gazes, and not much more. N...

The International Atomic Energy Association is reporting missing nuclear material in Libya. There is major concern about who possesses 2.5 tons of natural uranium left over from the era of the former Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Scott Roecker, the vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, about where the material was being stored and what could hap...

Kolkata's 150-year-old tram system is limping along. It's down to just two lines and there is little political will, or room in the city's crowded streets, to bring the streetcars back to their former glory days. The tram does have a small but loyal band of supporters that want to keep it alive. Sandip Roy met a few fans.

A stunning result in Dutch politics on Thursday as a farmers' party is set to be the most represented in the upper house of Parliament. The group, known as the Farmer-Citizen Movement, started in 2019 in response to widespread protests by farmers reacting to environmental regulations they believed were harmful to their businesses. The party has come to represent a lot more in the intervening years...

Poland says it's sending at least four Soviet-designed MiG fighter planes to Ukraine to aid in its war effort against Russian forces. Western nations previously avoided sending jets to avoid an escalation in the conflict. The World's Marco Werman talks to Mark Cancian, a former colonel with the U-S Marine Corps Reserve, and expert based at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about...

The latest boost for the Maori language of New Zealand's Indigenous people comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, which has announced that it's including 47 new entries in Maori in its latest update. Host Marco Werman looks at some of the ways a language spoken by only 150,000 people has gotten support.

In Ghana, a shortage of childhood vaccines has mothers going from hospital to hospital in search of immunizations to protect their infants. As a result, measles is breaking out in some parts of the country. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from the capital, Accra, on some of the reasons behind the shortage, and the effect on families. 

A prominent newspaper in Afghanistan never stopped operating when many of its journalists had to flee the country in August of 2021. Etilaatroz went online only during the takeover of Kabul, and eventually, the team opened a new newsroom in an office building in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. Valerie Plesch visited the newsroom and tells the story of how the news organiza...

The ocean floor is one of the coldest, darkest places in the world. But according to scientists, it's getting warmer. A new study out this week in Nature Communications finds that parts of the ocean floor has been having heat waves. And these heat waves can have far-reaching impacts for fisheries and ocean currents. The World's Marco Werman speaks to NOAA research scientist Dillon Amaya about the...

Years of war interrupted and undermined Iraq’s music scene. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on how the current relative stability has created a space for its revival.

China's government is set to reopen the country to foreign tourism. It follows the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions which shut down much of China. The World's Marco Werman spoke with travel agent and founder of WildChina, Mei Zhang, about what visitors can expect as they plan travel to China. 

The Chilean government has empowered soldiers to control identity, check luggage and even detain people suspected of irregularly entering Chile through the border crossings in the north. But experts argue it won't make a big difference to stop illegal immigration. The World's Tibisay Zea reports.

US law enforcement is taking some new steps against espionage and intellectual property theft on university campuses. They're aimed at Russia, Iran, North Korea and, especially, China. But these measures are putting some researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on edge, as GBH Boston's Kirk Carapezza reports.

For the first time, a pro-abortion activist in Europe has been sentenced for providing abortion pills to a pregnant woman. Justyna Wydrynksa received an 8 month sentence of community service in a Polish court on Tuesday. The World’s European correspondent Orla Barry reports.

The crash landing of an American reconnaissance drone struck by a Russian warplane and downed over the Black Sea is further rattling US-Russia relations. It’s unclear whether the incident was an error or a deliberate action. Rand Corporation analyst Samuel Charap speaks with The World’s Marco Werman. 

Iraqi author Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has a new book called, “A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War.” It's an ode to a city shattered by war. Abdul-Ahad speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about his childhood home, the cycle of sectarian violence set in motion by the US-led invasion in 2003 and what might lie ahead for the centuries-old, cosmopolitan city. 

A new study by Swiss air purifier manufacturer finds that Lahore, Pakistan, has the worst air quality in the world. The World's Marco Werman talks about how the city earned the distinction, what other parts of the globe have poor air, and which places had the best air in 2022. 

Two women are now at the forefront of Italian politics. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the newly elected leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. But Schlein, a US-Italian national who once worked on Barack Obama's election campaigns, could not be more different from the nationalist prime minister. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Amid missiles strikes, air raid sirens and power outages, Ukrainians are finding ways to keep living their lives though this ongoing war with Russia. That includes searching for – and finding – love. The World’s Carolyn Beeler speaks with people who are dating, moving in together, and getting married in wartime Kyiv. And, she briefs host Marco Werman on the perspective of a professional couple's t...

The International Criminal Court has announced major war crimes cases against several individuals suspected of committing crimes in Ukraine. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Rebecca Hamilton about these cases and their significance in bringing justice and accountability in Ukraine. 

About half of the world’s population lives in areas with a risk of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease. Scientists have warned that climate change is likely hastening the spread of the mosquito species that carries the virus to areas that, until recently, were free of the disease. The World's Tibisay Zea reports.