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While some five million deaths have been reported around the world from COVID-19, the true toll is nearly three times higher than expected, according to new estimates. The World’s Elana Gordon reports. 

Russia’s top TV propagandists are increasingly broadcasting threats of nuclear strikes against the West. On a prime-time show this week, a leading TV anchor threatened Britain with a thermonuclear torpedo. Mikhail Fishman, the former host of a political talk show on a now-shuttered independent Russian outlet, TV Rain, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about what the threats might mean.

Ukraine's successful targeting of Russian generals has been helped by a classified, intelligence-gathering effort by the US, officials told The New York Times. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, now entering its third month, 12 Russian generals have been killed. Host Marco Werman spoke with Julian E. Barnes, a national security reporter for The New York Times who co-authored the story publ...

Italy’s top court ruled last week that children born in the country will be given their mother’s and father’s last names by default at birth. The court declared the automatic practice of only giving children their father’s last name is discriminatory. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports on what's in a name.

Large crowds of people flocked to prisons across government-controlled areas of Syria on Tuesday following a prison amnesty. They were hoping to hear any news of loved ones behind bars in the regime's prisons. Thousands of Syrians remain imprisoned in Syria nearly a decade since the start of the uprising. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Center for Interna...

Twenty-two years ago this month, a towering figure in Haiti was gunned down outside the radio station he ran. Even today, Jean Dominique is a household name for Haitians. His station, called “Radio Haiti” was unique. It was on the air for decades, but shut down soon after Dominique’s death. And it's politically aware programs were broadcast not only in French, the language of the rich and powerful...

The UK is paying Rwanda about $150 million to process and house migrants who have come to UK shores by crossing the English Channel. Under President Paul Kagama, Rwanda is considered to be a dictatorship where dissent is met with arrest and often death. Host Marco Werman speaks with Theogene Rudasingwa who was Rwanda’s ambassador to the US and also Kagame’s chief of staff until he left and moved t...

Polls indicate that voters on Thursday are going to make Sinn Fein the largest electoral force in Northern Ireland. It would be a first for the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Andrew Connelly traveled to Belfast to see how unionists and nationalists are campaigning, and what voters want.

In 2015, British journalist Rebecca Lowe decided to bike from her home in London all the way to Tehran, Iran. When she announced the decision to her family and friends, most thought she’d gone mad. But she went anyway and survived to write a book about her adventure. The World’s Shirin Jaafari spoke with Lowe about her new book, “Slow Road to Tehran.” 

On Wednesday, Beijing took the unusual step of closing 15% of its subway lines to fight rising COVID-19 numbers. The Chinese capital is the latest city with tightening restrictions under the country’s zero-COVID-19 policy. It’s been over a month since most residents in Shanghai, China’s largest city, have been able to leave the house. Host Marco Werman spoke to Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for gl...

On Friday morning, Canadian law enforcement are trying to figure out who sent a shopping bag full of handguns across the Canada-US border. The World's Marco Werman reports.

Americans are blanching at high food and gas prices but inflation is affecting every corner of the globe. The main causes: war in Ukraine and pandemic lockdowns in China. Marco Werman explores the connections and what has to happen to tame inflation with Jacob Goldstein, author of “Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing,” and host of the podcast: “What’s your Problem,” a podcast about business a...

The European Union is looking at a proposal to cut itself off of Russian energy. The move is part of a new package of sanctions being discussed by the EU this week. Putting the embargo in place would take some time to implement, and it would require all 27 member states to sign off on it. But as The World's Carolyn Beeler reports from Berlin, Europe's biggest economy  — Germany —  is already takin...

In order to reuse its Electron rocket and save costs, the US-New Zealand company Rocket Lab attempted to catch Electron with a helicopter today upon its reentry. The World's host Marco Werman tells us it worked — sort of — though Rocket Lab says it was a success.

Ukrainian poet Iya Kiva is no stranger to war. In 2014, she had to flee her hometown of Donetsk. And now she is a war refugee again. The World's Sarah Birnbaum interviews Kiva about war, loss and trauma. [NOTE: This story was preempted by live coverage of Supreme Court hearings on March 21, 2022.]

Immigrants with foreign medical degrees and certifications hoping to work in the US, can't get easily licensed. Even experienced medical professionals have to go back to school for years to be able to work as doctors and nurses again. With a critical shortage of healthcare workers, Maine Public Radio's Ari Snider reports that some states have tried to speed the process along, but most efforts have...

The leaked draft opinion suggesting that the Supreme Court has a majority to overturn Roe v. Wade has implications both domestically and globally. If it is overturned, abortion bans could take effect in half of the 50 states. Globally, it could affect US funding for reproductive health around the world. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Terry McGovern, chair of the Department of Population...

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline ends in the village of Lubmin, which has a population of about 2,000. It was a seaside village in former Soviet East Germany. The pipeline’s cancellation has cost approximately a dozen jobs there and an estimated $2 million in annual tax revenue that was expected to come in. Now, the future of Nord Stream 1 is uncertain too. The World’s Carolyn Beeler visits the village...

In India, the month of Ramadan was marked by a rise in attacks against Muslims, the country's largest minority. Hardline Hindu nationalists have stoked communal violence, and the government has done little to stop it. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to Ravi Agrawal, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, who says the violent trend is likely to continue.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Thailand yesterday. It was the third stop on a world tour to meet with leaders in South East Asia and Europe. Host Marco Werman spoke with Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan program at The Stimson Center in Washington.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is likely to spend the rest of his life in a US prison, after having been extradited to New York on drug trafficking and weapons charges. And his legacy of corruption, state violence and inequality will also stay with Honduras for many years to come. So, how is the government of his successor Xiomara Castro, who was sworn in this January, approachin...

Russian troops resumed bombing a steel plant in the port city of Mariupol today, even though many civilians are apparently still trapped inside the factory. More than 100 Ukrainians who had escaped from bunkers below the steelworks have arrived in Kyiv-controlled Zaporizhzhia. The World’s host Marco Werman gets the latest from reporter Volodymyr Solohub in the Ukrainian capital.

Host Marco Werman has an appreciation of Régine Zylberberg, better known just as Régine, who went from being an orphan during WWII to the woman best known for creating the world's first discotheque, leading to a massive global nightclub dance culture.

The metaverse is shorthand for digital worlds, often experienced through a headset, that are super immersive. Tech gurus predict that moving forward this is how many people will spend time online. It’s the reason Facebook changed its name to Meta. But South Korea’s government doesn’t want Silicon Valley to monopolize the metaverse. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, the Asian tech hub is spendin...

Trevor Noah ended his roast of politicians and the media at the 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner with a powerful reminder of those of us in the world who benefit from press freedoms, evoking the Russian journalists who don't.