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With its vast oil and gas reserves in the North Sea, Norway is profiting from global energy demands. Is it war profiteering? What should it do with the money? What's the cost to the environment? Reporter Katie Toth of the podcast “Things That Go Boom” reports on a conference in Norway that wrestled with these questions.

Pakistan's climate minister says that a third of the country is now under water and 33 million people have been affected by major flooding. The World's host Carol Hills spoke with Khuram Gondal, head of Save the Children in Pakistan, about efforts to provide aid and assistance to those affected by the floods.

The Dutch government is due in court next month, accused of "the inhumane treatment of refugees" in the Netherlands. The Dutch Refugee Council, a nongovernmental organization, is suing the government over the conditions at migrant reception centers across the country. One facility has been described as a health hazard, after a 3-month-old baby died there last week. The World's Europe correspondent...

Ukraine’s military says its long-awaited counteroffensive in the Kherson region has begun. The blitz started with several strikes on bridges spanning the strategically-important River Dnipro. The World’s host Carol Hills speaks with Michael Kofman. He directs Russia studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, a research group in Virginia.

Many people who describe long COVID symptoms to their health care providers are met with suspicion. But their symptoms are real, says author and New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci. She tells The World’s host Carol Hills that a new approach to dealing with long Covid might unlock clues to many other diseases.

A new method of weather forecasting says that global sea levels will rise 10 inches, as opposed to five, by the end of the century. According to the study in Nature Climate Change, the increase will happen even if humans take efforts to reverse global warming. The World's host Carol Hills speaks to glacier watcher David Holland, a professor of mathematics and atmospheric science at New York Univer...

After months of political impasse, Iraq is facing protests again. This time it comes after the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he is leaving politics for good. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on what's driving the protests and what they could mean for the formation of the government.

For hundreds of years, people living in Louisiana’s bayou country have spoken French. But rising sea levels, erosions and storms have submerged entire communities, forcing people to abandon their homes. The latest storm, 2021’s Hurricane Ida, killed 30 Louisianans, displaced tens of thousands of others and destroyed thousands of homes. Many native French speakers have had enough and are now disper...

At the height of the Cold War, people went to extreme lengths to smuggle information in and out of the Soviet Union. Some of the most daring were members of Boston’s Klezmer Conservatory Band, who were trying to help Jewish members of the Phantom Orchestra escape. Dina Temple-Raston, from the podcast “Click Here,” details how they invented a secret code and buried it within their sheet music.

Water is in short supply in Monterrey, Mexico. Extreme drought has left three dams that serve this city of 5 million people, practically empty. Even the rain that’s expected for the next few months won’t be enough to solve this problem, experts warn. Authorities are restricting the water supply. But The World’s Tibisay Zea found that water cuts impact some neighborhoods more than others.

Pope Francis elevated 20 new churchmen to bishops on Saturday. These are the men who will help determine who the 85-year-old's eventual successor will be. John Last reports that they are not bishops who necessarily reflect the Pope's liberal values, but their diversity speaks to his view on a more inclusive church.

The risk to spies in the field is one reason why, according to the US Justice Department, the FBI took the dramatic step of searching former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago. The department believed that some of the classified documents recovered there could have posed a serious danger to the United States’ human intelligence sources. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen was a CIA station chief in...

It's said to be the biggest annual arts festival in the world. The Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland just wrapped up, hosting hundreds of thousands of visitors, taking in music, theater, dance and comedy performed by artists from more than 50 countries. And despite six months of grueling war with Russia, several acts from Ukraine were also represented. Andrew Connelly reports from Edinb...

After weeks of tense negotiations, United Nations officials say they’re now sending IAEA inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the area. Now, experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency are planning to visit the plant later in the week. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports from Lviv, in western Ukraine.

In this special hour of The World, Paris-based reporter Rebecca Rosman takes a trip across France where she speaks to Catholics, Jews, Muslims and atheists about their right to believe, or not to believe, in France today.

Movies are one of the most culturally potent US exports, and early Hollywood studios operated cinemas all over the world — from Buenos Aires to Tokyo to Cairo. Ross Melnick explains the soft power of American movie theaters from his new book, “Hollywood Embassies.”

On Thursday, about 500 Iranian women were allowed to attend a soccer match at a stadium for the first time in 40 years. Officials gave permission for women to attend a game between two Iranian domestic teams. Women in Iran had been banned from going to stadiums since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The World’s host Carol Hills has the details.

Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, is home to the world's largest refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have been sheltering there since they were forced to flee their homes amid persecution in Myanmar five years ago. The World's Stephen Snyder spoke with a young folklorist who went around the camp to collect Rohingya stories before they are lost forever.

The United Kingdom likes to see itself as one of the world’s top performers when it comes to scientific research. But some of that success was thanks to funding from the European Union. When Brexit took place, scientists in the UK worried that the money would dry up. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports that those fears are now starting to become a reality.

Six months since Putin's war in Ukraine began, it's settled into an attritional grind. The World's Carol Hills interviews Ben Hodges, the former commanding general for the US Army in Europe, about the strategic outlook for both sides.

Along the coast between Lebanon and Israel lies a number of gas and oil fields that have become the source of ongoing tensions between the two countries. The World's host Carol Hills speaks with Marc Ayoub, an energy researcher based in Lebanon, about the claims of both countries specifically around one of the fields, and what could happen if this issue isn't resolved.

Qatar is hosting the World Cup soccer games in November and is facing some backlash from human rights organizations. The Gulf country has arrested and deported a number of migrants after they protested about months of unpaid wages. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Accusations of ageism and sexism are swirling around the sudden firing of popular Canadian news anchor, Lisa LaFlamme. Even fast food chain Wendy’s had something to say about it. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.

South Asia has had one of the worst monsoon seasons on record. Floods have displaced millions and more than 900 people have died in Pakistan alone. Climate change is expected to make future seasons even worse. The World's host Carol Hills speaks to Inside Climate News reporter Zoha Tunio, who is in Karachi, Pakistan, about what can be done to prevent death and destruction in the future.

For the first time in its history, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine was completely disconnected from the electric grid on Thursday. While power was restored, at least partially, on Friday, the event has raised serious concerns about the potential for a nuclear catastrophe in Europe. Host Carol Hills spoke to Mariana Budjeryn, a senior research associate at Harvard’s Managing the Ato...