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Host Marco Werman fills us in on the career of Vietnamese superstar Son Tung MTP. 

In Colombia, the Legislature could soon resume conversations about a controversial bill that would legalize coca and cocaine. If approved, it would be the very first time that a country legalizes a drug as addictive and harmful. There seems to be momentum behind the idea now that the country is getting a new president, and Colombia's Truth Commission has recommended to stop prohibiting illicit dru...

If you’re feeling hungry, you might want to eat a biting of nyama choma. A “biting” is a common way to refer to a snack in East Africa, and nyama choma is a popular grilled meat eaten in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, among other countries. This is just one of about 200,000 East African terms that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in recent weeks. To discuss, The World's host Marco We...

The image of the starving polar bear, separated from its food sources by the melting sea ice of the Arctic, is one that strikes at the heart of the public. But the real situation of the polar bears in the high Arctic is much more nuanced. Emily Haavik reports from the Svalbard archipelago on what scientists are learning about polar bear adaptation, and the impacts of climate change.

At a forum for Pacific island nations, regional leaders agreed to consult with each other before signing onto individual security deals. The agreement among the countries is seen as a rejection of China's forays into influencing the region, most notably through a secretive security pact with the Solomon Islands. Host Marco Werman spoke with Charles Edel, a former adviser on the Indo-Pacific region...

Gerry Hadden reports on a battle between Spanish farmers and rabbits, a conflict that dates back to Roman times. As the current plague of bunnies destroys crops, farmers are demanding action by the government to control the rabbit population.

The war in Ukraine is causing a global shortage of chickpeas (a.k.a. garbanzo beans). According to Global Pulse Confederation, a nonprofit trade organization based in Dubai, global supply of the crop could drop as much as 20% this year. The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with Marco Werman and brings us the latest.

Cpl. Andrii Shadrin, a 26-year-old Ukrainian medic, has been stationed in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region for the last ten months. From a makeshift base in the Luhansk region, he talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the difficulties Ukrainian soldiers face on eastern front.

President Biden is in the Middle East this week talking with US allies. Iran is watching the visit with Israel and Saudi Arabia —its regional adversaries — very closely. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Sina Azodi, a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council, about what this trip looks like from Tehran's point of view.

Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra recently made headlines for allegedly having an affair with former congressional candidate, lawyer and poet Zully Pinchi. Both Vizcarra and Pinchi deny any romantic involvement. But leaked WhatsApp messages allegedly reveal the romantic relationship. In a now viral song, Peruvian producer Tito Silva turned those WhatsApp messages into lyrics. The World's B...

Teachers in Ghana are out on strike after the government failed to meet their wage demands. Reporter Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman explains that their walkout is symptomatic of Ghana's widening economic crisis, which has led the government to seek financial help from the International Monetary Fund.

Building back after a flood or a fire is expensive, and someone’s got to pay. It’s hard to put a price tag on the climate crisis, but doctoral candidate at Dartmouth College Christopher Callahan has done just that. He tells host Marco Werman about a new study out this week in journal Climatic Change that linked the cost of the climate crisis to the world’s biggest emitters. Topping the list are th...

A fishing family in Sonora, Mexico, once sold sea turtles for their meat. Now, they measure the endangered animals, weigh them, tag them — and release them back into the sea. It's become a family project, helping sea turtles to navigate climate change, poachers and fishing nets. Reporter Kendal Blust sails with the tortugueros — or turtle wranglers — of Kino Bay.

In the Spring, a Russian hacking group attacked government databases in Costa Rica. Cyberexperts fear it's just the beginning, and attacks on governments may become more common. Dina Temple-Raston of the podcast, “Click Here,” reports on how Costa Rica reacted, and the lasting implications of the attack.

Thirteen million Ukrainians have been displaced by the war with Russia. Many fled to Lviv, Ukraine, where the government has erected what they're calling modular villages — shipping containers converted into one-room homes, with a shared kitchen and facilities. Reporter Ashley Westerman checked out one of these villages, and reports on how they're a temporary fix to a major housing crisis.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has left millions of tons of desperately needed grain sitting in silos. Now, military leaders from Russia and Ukraine are sitting down together in Istanbul with Turkish and UN officials to discuss whether it’s possible to get the grain onto the world market. Sinan Ulgen, chairman of EDAM — the Istanbul-based Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies — tells host Marco...

On Wednesday in Sri Lanka, protesters stormed the prime minister’s office. This happened after Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country to the Maldives. He hadn’t yet resigned, and that has deepened a political crisis in a country enduring months of economic turmoil. Shanta Devarajan, a professor of the practice of international development at Georgetown University, joins us from...

President Joe Biden will visit the occupied Palestinian territories in East Jerusalem and the West Bank during his Middle Eastern trip. The US hopes to reset the relationship between itself and Palestinians which suffered under former President Donald Trump. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dalia Hatuqa, a Palestinian journalist, about expectations for Biden's visit and issues the two sides cou...

President Joe Biden first traveled to Israel back in 1973, when he was a newly elected member of the US Senate. On Wednesday, he arrived for his 10th trip there, and his first as president. The top agenda item for Biden is regional security. Scheduled meetings with Israeli officials focus on strengthening the regional relationships that Israel has forged with some of its Muslim neighbors. One thin...

Asparagus is a quintessentially British summer vegetable, but there haven't been enough pickers. Desperate farmers are trying out a robot that analyzes the size of a spear before it makes the cut. Catherine Nixey of the Economist visited a farm in Gloucestershire, England to meet Sprout, the asparagus-picking robot.

In Naples, Italy, there’s a peculiar tradition surrounding the lottery. For centuries, locals have turned to their dreams to figure out what numbers to play — the belief is that dead family members and friends send encrypted messages with the winning lottery tickets. So, for every image or scenario in a dream — there’s a number associated with it. And as The World’s Lucía Benavides reports, this t...

NSO Group, the Israeli spyware company responsible for creating the hacking tool called Pegasus, which was sold to regimes around the world, many that turned around and used it to hack civil society groups, is deep in debt and looking for a way out. A recent deal with American defense contractor L3Harris went south. Marco Werman interviews John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, wh...

Lebanon's iconic cedar trees feature in both the Bible and the “Epic of Gilgamesh.” But after centuries of deforestation and civil war, just 1% of the country's cedars are still hanging on. Now, climate change is slowly killing them off at lower altitudes. As The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports from Lebanon, efforts are now being made to plant new cedars, with the support of Christian monks who h...

Four-time gold medalist Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked as a child is a familiar story for Neil Giles. He’s a director at the international organization Stop the Traffik. Giles and The World’s Marco Werman discuss how child traffickers operate and what can be done to stop them.

Hass avocado production is taking off in Peru. Gisele Regatão and Vera Haller report on how farmers there are cashing in on the growing demand. Even though the thirsty fruit is straining water supplies, Peruvians are adapting — and competing — in the avocado business.