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There was a time when environmentalists fought tooth and nail against nuclear power. That might be changing in Europe, where EU lawmakers voted to label some nuclear — and natural gas — projects as “green.” That will make it easier for investors to get low-interest loans and state subsidies to expand nuclear energy and gas projects. The new rules have been hotly debated for more than a year. The W...

Afghanistan's national museum could soon be getting a new artifact, and a distinctly modern one. It's a white Toyota Corolla, more than 20 years old, that the founder of the Taliban used to flee US airstrikes back in 2001. Host Marco Werman has the details.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he plans to establish an 18-mile “safe zone” in northern Syria to counter a US-backed Kurdish group. Erdoğan considers the People’s Protection Units or the YPG a threat to the security of his country. The World’s Shirin Jaafari has the details.

On Wednesday, South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said the country is losing “future generations to the scourge of underage drinking” at a ceremony remembering 21 teenagers who died mysteriously in a tavern in South Africa last month. The youngest was just 13. While the cause of death for the teenagers remains unclear, the tragedy has sparked a debate in the country over alcohol consumption...

Producing clothes devastates the environment, causing 10% of carbon emissions. Making one T-shirt uses enough water to hydrate a human being for more than two years. Europe — the leading importer of clothes — is seeking to crack down on this phenomenon by demanding factories make sturdier, fixable clothes that don’t fall apart in the wash. But these proposals, if enforced, would require a revoluti...

One year ago on Thursday, assailants in Port-au-Prince broke down the door to the home of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse and murdered him in his bedroom. The World’s Marco Werman talks with Widlore Mérancourt, the editor of the Haitian news outlet Ayibopost in Port-au-Prince. They discuss efforts to find those responsible for the assassination and how Haiti has changed since the killing.

US basketball player Brittney Griner appeared in a Russian court on Thursday where she pleaded guilty to drug charges that could keep her in prison for 10 years. Host Marco Werman speaks with Russia scholar Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon about Griner’s case and the political tension that surrounds her amid historically poor relations between Washington and Moscow.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party. It took over 50 resignations from his government and the wider party for Johnson to finally concede defeat. But Johnson said he will remain in power until a new leader is elected — a decision that did not go down well with many of his colleagues. Orla Barry reports. 

Host Marco Werman tells us that even with multiple crises across the globe, the K-pop train doesn't stop. Nayeon, of the band TWICE, has released her first solo recording. She's done what no other K-pop star has achieved: debuting in the top ten on Billboard's main 200 Albums chart.

Needle spiking is jabbing someone with a syringe. In dance clubs across parts of Europe, the culprits usually slip away before the victims even know what hit them. The targets are mostly young women. As Gerry Hadden reports from France, the practice is on the rise and has many people spooked.

When a civil war broke out in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, thousands fled the fighting. Many found shelter in the abandoned Soviet-era resorts in the center-west of the country. Three decades later, the government has built them housing and they will soon be moving out. Reporter Levi Bridges reports from Tskaltubo, Georgia, on the life people made inside the sanatoriums.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, frequently calls on the US to send more weapons to help defend against Russia. But there is another, more private push for Ukrainian military support happening in DC. Ben Freeman from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft tells host Marco Werman about an unprecedented effort by lobbyists to influence US lawmakers on Ukraine's behalf.

In June, Gustavo Petro won the presidential election in Colombia and became the nation's first leftist president, joining a wave of progressive politicians who have been dominating elections in Latin America recently. As Manuel Rueda reports from Bogotá, this leftward shift could have a major impact on U.S. foreign policy in the region.

Canadians Geoffrey Taylor and Duncan Taylor are longtime hiking enthusiasts. For years, they hiked Mount Pétain just south of Banff in Canada. But the mountain was named for a Nazi collaborator. So the father-son duo set out to change it. Host Marco Werman has the story.

The Sudanese general who led a military coup late last year, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said he wants to see a transition to civilian rule. But the offer was promptly rejected by the political opposition. To find out why, host Marco Werman speaks with Dalia Abdel Moneim, a Sudanese activist in the capital Khartoum.

A café manager in Tokyo has developed a particular method to help writers struggling with procrastination complete their work — whether it's a business plan, a novel or a radio script. Thisanka Siripala recently paid a visit, script in hand and brought us this report on how it works.

A hacker under the alias "ChinaDan" claims to have stolen the personal data of over 1 billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai Police database. Now, the anonymous hacker is offering to sell the information for $200,000. If the numbers are confirmed, this would be the biggest known cyberbreach in China, and among the biggest in the world. Host Marco Werman spoke with Zeyi Yang. 

Two key ministers plus a dozen lesser ministers have resigned from Boris Johnson’s government, with more expected. These officials are responding to Johnson's most recent scandal: defending the hiring of a minister with a long history of sexual misconduct. Speculation abounds on whether Johnson survives the week. Host Marco Werman speaks to  Tim Bale, politics professor at Queen Mary University of...

In Uzbekistan, mass protests over the weekend led to government suppression, violence and death. Uzbek government officials said that 18 people were killed and more than 240 people were wounded. The protests broke out in Karakalpakstan, a semi-autonomous republic in northwest Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev declared a monthlong state of emergency in Karakalpakstan. Host Marco...

The newest wave of COVID-19 infections and reinfections, fueled by more transmissible subvariants of the omicron strain, including BA.4 and BA.5, continues to grow across the US, the UK, many European countries and Brazil. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ulrich Elling, a molecular biologist and research group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, abo...

Namewee has won major music awards in Taiwan, but his music is banned in China and he’s been jailed in his home country of Malaysia. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor profiles the impish, idealistic musician.

WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for over four months, wrote to President Joe Biden saying,"I'm terrified I might be here forever." Marco Werman interviews Hugh Dugan, a former State Department special envoy for hostage situations about Griner's ongoing detention in Russia stemming from allegations that she was carrying oils derived from marijuana in her airport luggage.

As authorities have started to identify the bodies of the 53 migrants who lost their lives in an abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas, the portraits of the victims are slowly coming together. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports.

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent millions of refugees scrambling for shelter across Europe, some were offered an unlikely sanctuary: beach resorts in Spain, one of the continent’s most popular tourist destinations. For nonprofits and governments trying to accommodate hundreds of families every day, empty hotels came in handy. This also provided some economic relief to an ailing tourism in...

One of Australia's largest cities is dealing with some severe flooding. Officials are now putting out evacuation alerts to more than 50,000 residents. The southeast of Australia has seen floods before. But the extent of the damage in recent days, and the frequency of these floods, raise some big questions. Host Marco Werman wpoke with Tom Hubble, an associate professor in engineering and environme...