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Niger has one of the youngest, most vulnerable populations on the planet. In much of the country, civilian abductions are rampant, and the government is at the mercy of bandits. Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council is in Niger. He talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the uncertain future facing Niger’s youth. 

Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka are leaving Melbourne as the latest singles champions of the Australian Open. The wins mark Djokovic's 10th victory down under and Sabalenka's first. The World's Bianca Hillier has the details from on and off the court. 

In Peru's capital city of Lima, police clashed with protesters over the weekend, and one man died after being hit with a teargas canister. Protesters are calling for President Dina Boluarte to resign. She has called for early elections, but it's up to Congress to decide. The country's economy is taking a hit as the confrontations continue, and some people even started mounting a counterprotests. M...

A British-Iranian consultant-turned-fixer for bribes paid out by large multinational oil and gas companies has been sentenced to five years in prison in the United States. It's estimated that his work on bribes has tainted billions of dollars in deals across the Middle East and Africa. The World's Marco Werman interviews James Koukios, a former global corruption prosecutor for the US Department of...

Rahul Gandhi, head of India's opposition Congress party, started a "unity march" last September from the southern tip of the country. The march ends Monday in northern Kashmir. He's trying to drum up support for his party, opposition to the ruling BJP, and, many observers say, trying to uphold democracy in India in the face of an increasingly religious state. Sushmita Pathak reports from Delhi on...

On Monday, a suicide bombing targeted a mosque in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan. According to local police, over 30 people have died and 150 more injured. On social media, the head of a group known as the Pakistani Taliban claimed to have carried out the attack. The group has resumed attacks in Pakistan after it ended a ceasefire...

One of the world’s most-influential composers ever, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756. The musical genius remains one of the most famous and impactful composers of any era, having written hundreds of musical compositions in his 35 years of life. The World spoke with Mozart's biographer Jan Swaffer.

With the US and its allies out of Afghanistan, China is eyeing resource extraction including oil and copper in the country, with a deal being struck between the Taliban and the Chinese energy company, Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas, earlier this month (the first of its kind since the US left the country). But despite Taliban assurances, there have been growing threats from militant groups...

A restaurant in São Paulo, Brazil, has just been named one of the best in the world. And among that group, it's probably the cheapest. That's because the chefs have developed a rotating menu based on using all parts of a common animal — the pig. Reporter Gisele Regatao visits A Casa do Porco to get a taste and the back-story of a chef who grew up selling sandwiches on the streets of downtown São P...

Seeing patients starving to death, and facing a similar fate themselves, 23 Jewish doctors who were forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto documented what a lack of food did to the body. Their book, “The Disease of Starvation: Clinical Research on Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942" was recently rediscovered by Tufts University professor Merry Fitzpatrick. She spoke to Dan Merino, the host of Th...

Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka will face off on Saturday in the final match of the 2023 Australian Open. Then on Sunday, Stefanos Tsitsipas will take on Novak Djokovic in the men's final. The World's Bianca Hillier previews the matches in a conversation with host Carol Hills

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited South Africa this week. The visit comes at a challenging time for South Africa and amid a growing relationship between South Africa and China. South Africa is also planning on holding joint military drills with China and Russia on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Joseph Siegle, director of research at the Afri...

In recent months reports have emerged that at least two men, one from Zambia and another from Tanzania, were killed while fighting for the Wagner group in Ukraine. Wagner reportedly recruited the men from Russian prisons, promising them freedom. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Over the next few weeks, the European Union is debating stricter penalties and deportations for people who arrive in the bloc illegally. Meanwhile in Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pursued harsh measures toward migrants and the nongovernmental organizations that try to rescue them at sea. John Last reports from Padua, Italy, that these measures in Italy and Greece are still not stopping...

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced he's going on a trip to the Middle East in the coming days. He will first visit Egypt's leader, then head north across the Mediterranean to visit Palestinian and Israeli officials. He will arrive on the heels of an Israeli counterinsurgency raid in Jenin Camp, which killed at least two civilians and ratcheted up tensions on either side...

India has banned the BBC's two-part documentary, “India: The Modi Question.” It explores Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots that left more than 1,000 people dead. Invoking "emergency powers," riot police have been sent to university campuses to make sure the film is not shown to audiences. The World's Marco Werman speaks to Rana Ayyub, the author of "Gujarat File...

Growing up in Libya's capital of Tripoli, Bahjat Etorjman dreamed of becoming a musician. When conflict broke out in his home country in 2011, he had to flee with his family to Malta. It's there that he got the chance to make his dreams come true. Now his songs, which blend Arabic, English, and Libyan dialects, are attracting a huge global fan base. The World's Halima Gikandi spoke with Bahjat abo...

A trial has just gotten underway in Brooklyn that is being closely watched in Mexico. Genaro Garcia Luna, who ran Mexico's version of the FBI, is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for granting protection to the Sinaloa drug cartel. The trial of Garcia Luna could reveal unsavory details about the US-supported war on drugs in Mexico, which has claimed more than 300,000 live...

There is nowhere to put many of Amsterdam's hundreds of thousands of bikes. So, a new underwater bike garage opens on Thursday, with space for up to 7,000 of them. The garage is an engineering feat that took four years to build. Located under the main train station, it will make biking more convenient in the Dutch capital. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

China's military, for the first time ever, sent an aircraft carrier within hundreds of miles of US soil last month, toward the territory of Guam. Pentagon officials speculate that if China invades Taiwan, the Chinese military will likely strike the heavily militarized island of Guam, simply to prevent the US from intervening. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, many of Guam’s native peoples say t...

Israeli soldiers entered the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday in a raid against suspected Palestinian militants. Israel said the targets were members of the militant group Islamic Jihad, but at least one civilian was also killed in the shootout that followed. This was the deadliest single Israel Defense Forces operation in two decades, and more violence is expected. The Wor...

The United Nation's World Heritage Committee on Wednesday voted to inscribe the historic center of Odesa onto its World Heritage List. Known for its historic architectural and cultural treasures, Odesa has also been targeted by Russian missiles, as host Marco Werman explains, the UN decision is not without controversy.

Ukraine has welcomed promises from Western allies to provide its military with heavy battle tanks. Now, officials in Kyiv are asking the US government for fourth-generation fighter jets, like the F-16. Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, speaks with The World's Marco Werman. 

The World Health Organization is calling for "immediate action" to protect children from contaminated cough syrup that has killed more than 300 children in Asia and Africa. The syrup has been linked to pharmaceutical manufacturers in India. The World's Marco Werman discusses the story with Dinesh Thakur, a former pharmaceutical executive in India who became a whistleblower after he revealed that h...

In the midst of Lebanon's financial crisis, there's more trouble at the country's central bank, with the governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, under investigation for corruption. Now, European investigators are involved. The World's Marco Werman interviews Alia Ibrahim, co-founder and reporter at Daraj.com who has followed Salameh's long fraught career.