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The Polish government is being accused of setting up a "pregnancy register" to document all the pregnancies in the country. Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The country's Health Ministry said the new database is being set up following a directive by the European Union. But as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, abortion activists are not convinced. 

The CDC is set to lift a COVID-19 testing requirement for travelers flying into the United States, The agency says the requirement is no longer necessary "based on the science and data." Host Jason Margolis has the details.

Following the deadly school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, families of the victims campaigned for — and secured — a nationwide ban on handguns. Gill Marshall-Andrews, longtime gun control advocate and chairperson of the UK’s Gun Control Network, helped the Dunblane families pressure UK politicians to pass historic gun control laws. She tells The World's Marco Werman how they kept Britain...

Golf fans have some new tournaments to watch — the LIV Golf Series. It's attracted a few high-profile golfers with rich cash prizes. But on Friday, the commissioner of the Professional Golfers Association said that all players competing in the LIV are now suspended from the PGA Tour. The LIV golf series is sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. And a lot of people say the Saudis are us...

An old virus that has been making a new appearance. The WHO reports that more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified in more than two dozen countries — countries that don’t typically see monkeypox. There’ve been no deaths, but the spread has put more places on alert. The World’s Elana Gordon reports on what we know, and how we got here. 

While the Summit of the Americas concludes Friday after starting with discord, President Joe Biden wanted to end the week on a high note. The US unveiled a long list of measures to confront the migration crisis in the Western Hemisphere and pledged hundreds of millions to tackle the problems. Jason Margolis interviewed Mark Feierstein, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International...

There’s no letup in the grueling battles raging in Ukraine’s Donbas region. Reporter Volodymyr Solohub is in Kharkiv and has been venturing into villages that were recently under Russian occupation. Solohub tells The World’s Marco Werman the story of one Ukrainian soldier he met who has been shaken by the unrelenting fighting.

In a major change from long-standing trade policy, the Biden administration has paused increases in tariffs on Chinese solar technology. Marco Werman interviews David Sandalow, the inaugural fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University where he founded and directs the Center's US-China Program, about the shift.

This month in Rome, Pope Francis canonized 10 new saints. He's named a record number of saints since becoming pope. His predecessor Pope John Paul II had already been canonized as did all the previous Catholic popes combined. John Last reports from Italy on the changing requirements for sainthood, and why their numbers are increasing. 

Earlier this month, the State Department dropped a massive report that looked at the state of religious freedom in some 200 countries. Host Marco Werman speaks with the US Ambassador at Large from the Office of Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain who led the project.

This week, King Philippe of Belgium returned a ceremonial Congolese mask once exhibited in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The repatriation of the mask was part of a historic first visit to the country by the monarch. Host Marco Werman spoke with Eric Kuikende Bonshona, a researcher at the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It's a historic week of reckoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Belgium’s King Philippe is visiting the former Belgian colony in central Africa, and called his country's historic relationship with DR Congo unjustifiable. Historian Charles Tshimanga-Kashama explains this history to host Marco Werman, and describes the new relationship Congolese people want to have with Belgium.

Voluntary sex work has been legal in India for decades, but sex workers are often harrassed by police and stigmatized. As a result, they've been organizing and calling for their profession to get greater recognition as work. Recently, their efforts scored a major victory. Sushmita Pathak has this report from Hyderabad.

Suffering at the pump these days? Well, it's a lot bigger than you think. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Ben Cahill, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the different geopolitical factors behind the high price of gasoline.

Gas prices in the US are at an all-time high, according to the American Automobile Association. But on the other side of the Atlantic, they're paying much more. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.

On June 11, 1922, American filmmaker Robert Flaherty premiered “Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic” in New York City. Set in Inukjuak on the Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, the silent film documented the daily struggles of an Inuk man and his family. It was the first significant nonfiction film ever released and led to a new category of film: the documentary. Another...

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there's been an international effort to isolate the Kremlin, and pressure it to end the war. Many companies have left Russia, the US and EU have used extensive sanctions and, in some cases, Russia has been kicked out of international institutions. Earlier this week, Russia's parliament voted to leave the European Court of Human Rights. Host Marco Werman speaks w...

This week, military leaders from East Africa met in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to discuss the ongoing insecurity there. For years, the country has struggled to deal with violence caused by more than a hundred armed groups. The World's Halima Gikandi brings us this update.

In Brazil, a journalist and an anthropologist have gone missing from one of the largest Indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest. It’s an area that in recent years has become increasingly dangerous because of illegal logging, mining and narcotrafficking. Now, the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and anthropologist Bruno Pereira on Sunday has again rattled the country and turned into...

Researchers at the University of Montpellier in France say the species of reef fishes that people find least beautiful tend not to be prioritized for conservation support. Marco Werman interviews scientist and researcher Diogo Veríssimo about the plight of ugly fish that are critical to healthy ecosystems.

Scientists in South Africa and elsewhere are confirming a major shift in the pandemic. Sub-variants are giving rise to more reinfections. As The World’s Elana Gordon reports, this is creating a murkier outlook for the future with SARS-CoV-2, and the global response.

There's been a lot of back and forth over whether US President Biden is going to visit Saudi Arabia soon. Initial reports said he was going to visit, but then he said he had nothing planned. Why all the back and forth? The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar with the Arab Gulf States Institute, about the confusion and what a potential visit could mean for...

Amid spiking global prices of grain, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavüşoğlu in Ankara today to negotiate a plan to allow safe passage of blocked Ukrainian wheat exports through the Black Sea. The two did not reach a formal deal, but pledged to meet again in Istanbul. But balancing competing interests will be difficult: Russia is demanding sanction...

Allison Fluke-Ekren, from Kansas, has pleaded guilty to organizing and leading an all-female military battalion on behalf of ISIS. According to court documents, Fluke-Ekren trained women on to how to use assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Some 37 years after Kate Bush's hit song "Running Up That Hill (Make a Deal With God)," Netflix’s "Stranger Things" sends the tune into overdrive, pushing Bush’s song further up the charts in the US than it went in 1985 when it was released.