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China's lockdown in Shanghai has been intense, and cases are growing in Guangzhou. Marco Werman interviews The World's China correspondent, Rebecca Kanthor, about what life is like in Shanghai as the lockdown persists.

The presidential race in France narrowed to two contenders: current President Emmanuel Macron, and far-right challenger, Marine Le Pen. Marco Werman interviews reporter Rebecca Rosman about the most recent results and what they mean going forward to the runoffs.

In British Columbia, Canada, a colony of migrating sea lions is getting attention for more than their barking. They broke into a captive fish farm last weekend, and it's basically been a free meal for them ever since. Host Carol Hills talks with Andrew Trites, a marine mammal specialist at the University of British Columbia, about sea lions, farmed fish and keeping the ecosystem in balance.

In Mexico this weekend, voters will get a chance to decide whether or not their president should stay in office. As The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia tells host Carol Hills, it’s a vote that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is pushing himself.

At over 18,000 feet, Mexico’s Orizaba Peak is the tallest volcano and the third-highest mountain in North America. It's located in central Mexico, and is home to one of the country’s last glaciers. But due to climate change, drought and rapid deforestation, it’s quickly melting, placing at risk 2 million people who depend on its fresh water. Reporter Michael Fox visited villages where people are a...

El Salvador issues a major press censorship law amid gang violence, mass arrests and a state of emergency. After a weekend of bloodshed where gangs were blamed for leaving 62 dead bodies in the streets around the country, President Nayib Bukele issued the state of emergency — curtailing civil liberties. And this week, a new law banning the press and others from providing information about gangs co...

The United Kingdom’s government has promised to ban the discredited practice of conversion therapy since 2018. But progress has repeatedly been delayed. This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to continue with the ban, but to not include transgender and non-binary people. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

This week, Israeli politician Idit Silman left Israel’s coalition government, depriving it of a majority in the Knesset. Her stated reason for leaving has to do with a dispute on whether people should be allowed to bring bread into public hospitals during Passover. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.

Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man accused of shooting up a Tel Aviv bar on Friday, which resulted in three dead and more than a dozen Israelis injured. The World's host Carol Hills spoke with Daniella Cheslow, a reporter for AFP in Jerusalem, about what she witnessed at the scene of the attack.

For more than two decades, Volodymyr Dubovyk has been a professor at the Odessa Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. On Feb. 24, his life, as well as the lives of millions of Ukrainians, were flung into the uncertainty of war. Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to a large exodus from the country, creating millions of refugees and IDPs. However, just two weeks into the war, professor Dubovyk and...

Growing fears of war in Europe have been good news for manufacturers of underground bunkers. John Last reports that in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the bunker business is booming.

Today, dozens of people were killed in a missile strike on a Lviv train station used by people fleeing the conflict to western Europe. It’s just the latest targeting of civilians in a week that’s seen revelations about possible Russian war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Meanwhile, the response by most countries, including the US, has been more sanctions. To understand the impact of this econo...

An enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter is being observed at a remarkably early stage of formation, circling a far-away star. Astronomer Nienke van der Marel of Leiden University in the Netherlands tells host Marco Werman why the discovery is upending the current understanding of how planets are formed.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has asked museums abroad to give them back their art on loan. Some museums have refused and others are trying to navigate whether it’s even possible to transport the art at all. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sophia Kishkovsky, a correspondent for The Art Newspaper based in London, about news that Finland has confiscated $46 million worth of Russian art.

As Russian soldiers have retreated from areas around Kyiv, like Bucha, evidence is growing of the sexual violence inflicted on Ukrainian women and girls. Kira Rudik, a Ukrainian member of parliament and leader of the opposition Holos Party, has been to Bucha twice since Sunday. Rudik tells The World’s host Marco Werman that attacks on women and girls there have been brutal and systemic.

Those fleeing Ukraine have largely received a warm welcome. But LGBTQ people have felt particularly vulnerable trying to map out where they can go. Some worry about homophobia in Poland and Hungary. Trans women, who have not yet legally changed their gender, have been threatened for trying to leave the country. From Berlin, reporter Jessica Bateman meets groups that are helping LGBTQ people from R...

The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued a decree banning cultivation of poppy, which provides the raw material for heroin and other opiates. Opium production made up about 7% of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product last year and the ban is likely to upset farmers and those involved in the opium trade. The ban also comes at a time when Afghanistan is already facing an economic crisis. The World’s S...

On Thursday, a Turkish court said it was moving the trial of the 26 Saudi nationals linked to the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia. Turkey had been taking a strong role in bringing the case to court in Istanbul, where the 2018 murder took place at the Saudi consulate. Host Marco Werman finds out what's behind the Turkish judge's decision with reporter Durrie Bouscaren in...

Indonesians have begun to notice a shortage of a popular noodle product, Indomie, made from wheat powder. As The World's Patrick Winn reports, the shortage is revealing links between Ukraine and Indonesia’s go-to snack — a link now jeopardized by the Russian invasion.

Yemen's exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has resigned from his position. He's handing his power over to a presidential council, which will run the country and potentially negotiate with the Houthi rebel movement. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Iona Craig, a journalist covering Yemen, about this possible watershed moment in Yemen's decade-long conflict.

Today, the decision of Pakistan’s Supreme Court has major implications for Prime Minister Imran Khan's future — and the future of the country. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Karachi-based journalist Amber Shamsi to learn more.

Only a few weeks ago, opinion polls in France indicated that Emmanuel Macron was far ahead of his closest rivals in the race for the presidency. But in the last week, the polls are telling a different story. The World's Orla Barry reports that now the French are asking themselves if France is about to elect its first far-right president.

Six weeks into the war in Ukraine, Russia appears to have a new focus. After Russian soldiers retreated from the Kyiv area in recent days, its military efforts are now targeting the eastern part of the country, an area that borders Russia. The goal: to essentially cleave off the eastern edge of Ukraine. And as Russian troops are shifting, reporters have had more access to the suburbs of Kyiv and t...

Sotheby's is auctioning off Diego Maradona's jersey from the historic 1986 quarter final game of the soccer World Cup. Marco Werman has the story of the notorious “hand of God” goal and what Maradona's blue shirt with the No. 10 on the back has come to symbolize.

It's easy to imagine how unsettling it would be to lose your sense of smell and taste. Due to COVID-19, many people have over the past couple of years. But for people who rely on those senses for their jobs — sommeliers, chefs, perfumers, etc. — the financial loss is another burden to bear. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.