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The European Union is hosting meetings on Thursday between Kosovo and Serbia after tensions have been on the rise between the Balkan neighbors. Kosovo was formerly part of Serbia, but Serbia has never recognized Kosovo's independence. That's the underlying conflict, as Balkans political analyst Jasmin Mujanovic explains in an interview with host Marco Werman.

A Saudi university student has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting "rumors" and retweeting Saudi dissidents. Salma al-Shehab was detained when she was traveling to the kingdom to visit her family last year. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on how the Saudi government uses Twitter and social media to crack down on dissent.

In Kabul on Thursday, at least 21 people were killed and 33 more wounded. Worshippers were gathered for evening prayers at a mosque in Afghanistan's capital. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing, but ISIS has stepped up attacks since the Taliban took control of the country a year ago. As host Marco Werman explains, the deadly rivalry between the Taliban and ISIS illus...

Ships loaded with grain are finally moving out of Ukraine’s ports after nearly six months of idling in the Black Sea. But navigating through a war zone isn’t easy, and the shipments aren’t nearly enough to meet global demand. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director general of the World Trade Organization, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the slowdown in global trade and how it's contributing to...

“Next generation” booster jabs for COVID-19 became available in the UK this week. But no one expects them to quash the coronavirus. So, how can science get ahead of the virus? It’s a question science writer David Quammen grapples with in his new book “Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.” Quammen talks with The World’s host Marco Werman.

For much of the pandemic, West African countries have lacked the vaccines needed to protect their populations against COVID-19. But now that enough supply is available, there are still very few people choosing to get vaccinated. Reporting from Sierra Leone and Ghana, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman spoke to residents and health workers administering the vaccines about the challenges, including disinformat...

Social unrest is something Danilo Perez has seen before in Panama. He's one of the country's cultural ambassadors and is also the founder of the Panama Jazz Festival. Recent protests there have made planning the festival a challenge, and also brings to mind another moment in Panama's history when politics and music met. Perez speaks to host Marco Werman.

One year later, have we gained perspective on the US role in Afghanistan over the last 20 years? What lessons will future US policymakers draw from the Afghanistan experience? John Sopko has been the Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction for many years, and speaks with The World’s host Marco Werman.

In April, Russia cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland after those countries refused to pay for the gas in Russian rubles. But a new interim government took over in Bulgaria in June, and the leadership has considered reestablishing a contract with Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas supplier. Journalist Ashira Morris talks to The World's host Marco Werman about the implications of the deal, ho...

Paleontologists in southern Argentina have discovered the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur in the Patagonia region. The small, armor-plated animal proves that the area is home to a bigger story than what we’ve previously known about life in the Cretaceous period. Dr. Sebastián Apesteguía, who led paleontologists on the team, talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about what the dinosaur...

Turkey is calling for political reconciliation in Syria — or, at the very least, more stability. The Turkish government admitted that its foreign minister briefly met with his Syrian counterpart recently, and that caused an uproar across some segments of Syria's opposition movement. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Dareen Khalifa, a Syria analyst with International Crisis Group, about Turk...

Heat waves in the Mediterranean Sea have led to “massive mortality” of marine species. Host Marco Werman speaks with Gil Rilov of the National Institute of Oceanography at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) in Haifa, Israel, about new research that shows about 50 species — including corals, sponges and seaweed — that have been affected along the Mediterranean coastline.

Mali's legendary Oumou Sangaré put out her first album in five years earlier this year, and host Marco Werman spins a track from it, "Kele Magni," which means "war is bad." It’s a relevant thought this week, as the last French troops depart the country after a nine-year mission fighting insurgents in the Sahel.

Less than a decade ago, the World Bank called Sri Lanka a development "success story." After the end of the country's civil war in 2009, its GDP was growing, tourism was on the rise and the country saw a brighter future. Today's economic crisis is changing that. Families who have never had to worry about where their next meal was coming from, suddenly do. And even those with an economic cushion ar...

When Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, men wearing the thick black mustache modeled after Iraq's autocratic ruler got out the shaver. Men with distinctive mustaches were assumed to work for the military or the intelligence services, which could get you killed at the time. Now, in a period of relative calm, the Economist's Elise Burr says the mustache is making a comeback.

North Korea has put its neighbors on edge with increasingly frequent ballistic missiles tests. But the specter of a long-range ballistic missile that can carry multiple nuclear warheads all the way to the continental US is what people in the nonproliferation community call the "Monster Missile." Back in March, North Korea said it had successfully tested it, and Pyongyang put out a film featuring l...

In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, became the first Native American woman to stand onstage at the Academy Awards ceremony, on behalf of Marlon Brando. Her refusal — on Brando's request — to accept his award for Best Actor in “The Godfather” sparked a commotion in the theater and a controversy that brought attention to the plight of Indigenous people in the United...

Bison once roamed the United Kingdom freely, but like many native animals, agriculture and human development killed them all off. This month, for the first time in 6,000 years, three wild bison were released into a forest near Kent. The bison have been brought in as ecosystem engineers — they will thrash around the forest, eating bark and killing trees, eating and dispersing seeds, creating new ha...

After William Ruto was declared to be the winner of Kenya's presidential election, runner-up candidate Raila Odinga declared the results “null and void.” Odinga, who has run for office multiple times, said he would challenge the decision in court. The World's Halima Gikandi reports that, despite the confusion, the vote has taken place amid remarkably little violence.

Iran’s nuclear deal may be back from the dead. The European Union and Qatar hammered out a proposal, took it to Tehran and waited. Tehran said it likes most of what it sees. Today, Iran's foreign minister said that as long as the US is flexible, it can reach a deal in the near future. Naysan Rafati is a senior analyst for Iran at Crisis Group, an NGO focused on resolving conflict resolution, and s...

Workers inside Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are living through days and nights of constant stress. Outgoing Russian fire from the plant and fears of a nuclear catastrophe are growing. The Washington Post’s Europe correspondent Loveday Morris tells The World’s host Marco Werman about her recent trip to Zaporizhzhia and her discussions with workers there.

Beja music from the Sudanese city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea has sadly not been well-documented. But a new recording by the ensemble Noori & His Dorpa Band changes that, and brings the listener inside some of the grievances of the three-and-a-half-year-old popular uprising in Sudan against military rule.

Few people foresaw the dramatic fall of Kabul when the Taliban swept into Afghanistan's capital. The speed and the chaos caught up with the thousands of people trying to get out. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to Nelufar Hedayat, the host of the podcast “Kabul Falling,” who followed several Afghans as they fled the country.

The Biden administration announced that it’s ending the “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy, after a Supreme Court ruling. It required asylum seekers to wait for their court hearings on the Mexican side of the border. The first migrants being held in Mexico under this Trump-era policy started crossing into the US last week. The World’s Tibisay Zea has been following the story and joins host Marc...

President Donald Trump is under investigation for keeping at his Mar-a-Lago residence classified documents, including some related to nuclear weapons. His actions may have violated the Espionage Act. Tom Blanton, director of the independent nongovernmental agency National Security Archive, talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about key national security questions that the incident raises.