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Heavily influenced by Iggy and The Stooges and MC5, The Dizzy Brains are Madagascar's own raw and aggressive garage rock band. They also sing about corruption, poverty and violence that are overwhelming their island nation. We hear from the band's frontman Eddy Andrianarisoa.

Reddish-hued circular patches several feet in diameter can be found in the grasslands of Namibia, and also in northwestern Australia. They've been dubbed "fairy circles," and scientists have long debated what causes them: termites or an ecological version of self-organizing, an idea developed by Alan Turing. Host Marco Werman speaks with Stephan Getzin of the University of Gottingen in Germany, wh...

A shrine in southern Iran has been attacked by gunmen. At least 15 people have been killed at the Shah-e-Cheragh holy shrine in the city of Shiraz, with dozens more injured. Iranian security forces say they have arrested two attackers and are searching for a third. ISIS is claiming responsibility for the attack. The World's host Marco Werman discusses with Colin Clarke, a senior research fellow at...

A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated laws that allow police to randomly pull over drivers for traffic stops. Justice Michel Yergeau wrote that the practice paves the way for racial profiling and has a disproportionate impact on Black drivers. The World's Sarah Birnbaum has more on the decision.

Venezuelans have been leaving their country in large numbers over the past decade. And in recent months, many have come to the United States seeking asylum. But two weeks ago, the Biden administration changed its policy toward migrants from Venezuela, insisting that a small number can only arrive by air. Asylum-seekers at the border would be automatically rejected. Manuel Rueda reports from Colomb...

Kherson was one of the first cities in Ukraine to fall to Russian troops during the Feb. 24 invasion, and is one of the four regions Russia annexed in September. Ukrainian forces have been trying to push the Russians out of that region but Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russian forces are strengthening their position, and that he expects an increase in heavy battles. Host Marco Werma...

Chile is one of South America’s most-attractive destinations for Venezuelan migrants. Here, immigration has reshaped cities and towns, and it's on the national political agenda. The Venezuelan exodus has provided an opportunity for the criminal gang Tren de Aragua to establish permanent operations in Chile. The World’s Tibisay Zea visited the border between Chile and Bolivia last week, and joins H...

Israel is under a week away from holding its fifth parliamentary elections in two years. There's two concerns on the mind of Israeli voters: security and cost of living. The World's Marco Werman spoke with reporter Noga Tarnopolsky about the potential return of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what that means for Israel's democracy. 

More than 150,000 Sahrawi refugees displaced from their native Western Sahara have been living in a tent camp across the border in Algeria for the past 40 years. As the conflict with Morocco has dragged on, they’ve struggled to keep the world’s attention, so they’ve turned to an unlikely medium: film. With help from Spanish civil society, they opened a film school in the middle of the desert, and...

The Green Market in Almaty, Kazakhstan, boasts foods from many parts of Central Asia, but a crowd favorite is Koryo-Saram. It's a Korean cuisine developed after ethnic Koreans were deported from eastern Russia in the late 1930s. Those who settled in Kazakhstan adapted their ancestral food traditions to local ingredients and tastes. As The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports from Almaty, the food is i...

Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of the most well-known opposition politicians in Russia. Like Alexei Navalny, and dozens of other opposition politicians in Russia, Kara-Murza is in prison. Right now, he's awaiting his day in court after being accused of “high treason.” He is one of hundreds of documented political prisoners in Russia. The World's Daniel Ofman reports.

New recordings of sounds made by reptiles, amphibians and fish suggest that vocal communication among vertebrates originated roughly 400 million years ago. Host Marco Werman speaks with Dr. Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, lead author of the study, "Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates," just published in the journal Nature...

Thirty members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus publicized an open letter to the Biden administration on Monday, urging direct talks with Russian President Vladmir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, the signatories retracted the letter. The Eurasia Group Foundation’s Mark Hannah talks with The World’s Marco Werman about why the letter caused such an uproar.

International human trafficking victims in the United States, when they escape or are rescued, often are left with few resources. A special visa can help them stay in the United States. From station GBH in Boston, Sarah Betancourt reports there’s many obstacles to helping some of the most vulnerable succeed.

Promises made, promises broken. Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change. And a lack of drastic actions means more warming, and with it, more fires, floods and devastation. That is the upshot of a United Nations report out on Wednesday. The report finds only 13% of countries that made climate commitments at last year's climate conference have f...

Baritone Ilya Silchukov was the lead soloist at the State Opera Bolshoi in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. He lived a privileged and comfortable life in his homeland. But he gave it all up after speaking out against the authoritarian regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The singer tells host Marco Werman how he is restarting his international career from his new home in the US.

The Biden administration is tightening the screws on Nicaragua’s authoritarian government. An executive order signed by President Joe Biden this week makes it all but illegal for Americans to do business with Nicaragua’s gold industry. It also freezes the assets of a key Nicaraguan government adviser, while revoking the US visas of other insiders. Host Marco Werman gets more details from Ricardo Z...

Before the war began earlier this year in Ukraine, health officials were on a major campaign to vaccinate children for polio. Vaccination rates for polio had gone up from 60 to 80% in recent years. But displacement caused by the war has disrupted the program, and polio cases are beginning to rise. Levi Bridges reports on growing concerns about the spread of polio, a disease once thought to be all...

Israel conducted a raid against an armed Palestinian group in the occupied West Bank. The raid left 5 Palestinians, including one militant, dead in the old city of Nablus. The fighting raises new questions about stability in the region. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with journalist Fatima Abdelkarim about the fighting and its consequences.

American basketball star Brittney Griner remains in a Russian prison. This morning in Moscow, a court rejected her appeal of a 9-year prison sentence. Griner was convicted in August for drug possession. The US government said her detention is a "failure of justice." Host Marco Werman has the details.

Pro-democracy protesters in Sudan have marked the one-year anniversary of a military coup in their country by taking to the streets and calling for a transition to civilian rule. The government responded to the protests with tear gas and by blocking the internet. Host Marco Werman spoke to Kholood Khair, the founding director of Confluence Advisory, a think tank based in Khartoum, who joined the s...

US authorities said yesterday that they have charged Chinese nationals in three separate investigations over spying activities in the United States. Host Marco Werman speaks about the cases with former Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao, who says that, for Chinese nationals living in the US, surveillance and intimidation by China is a commonplace threat.

Evangelicals now make up a third of Brazil’s population. And their votes could be decisive in this weekend's tight presidential election. Michael Fox reports from southern Brazil on the role Michelle Bolsonaro, wife of the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, is playing in bringing out evangelical voters.

Ten Downing Street in London has yet another new occupant. Rishi Sunak met with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace this morning, making his appointment as Britain's new prime minister official. Sunak will be the fifth leader of the United Kingdom in the last six years. As The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, Sunak takes over at a challenging time.

In its country of origin, Thailand, Red Bull is known as Krating Daeng, literally translated as a “red bull.” As host Marco Werman explains, what began as a stimulant for sleepy truck drivers became a global phenomenon through a partnership between the late Dietrich Mateschitz and a Thai businessman.