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People in Yemen have lost internet access after airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition last Friday targeted a telecommunications building. The airstrike reportedly left dozens of people dead and injured, including some children. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the aftermath of the attack.

Days after troops seized the barracks, military officers in Burkina Faso announced that they have ousted the president and taken control of the country. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, whose whereabouts are unknown, has been under criticism from civilians and the military for the government’s failure to defeat Islamist insurgents. The World’s Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi reports.

An open letter has just been posted on Twitter by the family member of a COVID-19 victim in Wuhan. It complains about Wuhan government surveillance and pressure on the family not to talk about what happened to their relatives.

Villagers from the impoverished island of Aceh, who charge Exxon Mobil of hiring Indonesian soldiers to attack them, will finally have their case heard in a US court against Exxon Mobil. They allege that the soldiers who the energy giant hired to protect its gas fields beat, maimed and even killed locals. Exxon executives allegedly condoned the crimes. The World's Patrick Winn reports on the Washi...

In Europe, all eyes are on Russia and Ukraine. Fears of a new Russian invasion into Ukraine persist as Russia continues to hold tens of thousands of its troops near Ukraine's border. The US and other Western countries continue to provide Ukraine with additional military assistance. Now, according to recent reports, the Biden administration is weighing sending more troops to countries like Poland,...

The Hunga volcano eruption in Tonga this past week was one of the most powerful eruptions in the last 30 years, according to scientists. On the ground level, the eruption smothered the island nation with ash and water, but high up in the air, the blast created one of the most powerful shock waves ever detected in the Earth's atmosphere, according to atmospheric physicist Corwin Wright at the Unive...

More than 700 years ago, the poet and Sufi mystic Rumi started spinning as a form of meditation. His modern descendants today are known as "whirling dervishes." It's an often misunderstood practice, torn between commercialism and tradition, even in the Turkish city of Konya, where it all started. The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports.

Host Carol Hills tells us about the death on Thursday of one of Brazil's most popular singers, Elza Soares, whose life was a series of struggles, and a love of music.

The Biden administration this week began allowing each household in the US to order up to four COVID-19 tests. These tests have been hard to come by, both here in the US and abroad. It's a problem that Prashant Yadav has studied. He’s a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and he speaks with The World's Marco Werman.

US State Department officials traveled to Sudan this week to help mediate the ongoing political crisis in Sudan following the military coup in October. They condemned the use of "disproportionate" force against protestors. At least seven people were killed by live ammunition this week alone. The World's Halima Gikandi spoke with one group in Sudan's capital Khartoum that's been collecting video an...

Some interim findings of a major CIA study conclude that most cases of the mysterious ailment known as "Havana syndrome" are unlikely to have been caused by Russia or another hostile foreign power. The report says a majority of the 1,000 reported cases can be explained by environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions, or stress. But the CIA is still investigating two dozen or so cases that...

ISIS militants staged a surprising assault on a prison in northeast Syria on Thursday night. The prison holds ISIS militants captured in recent years. The attack is considered the most serious operation since the group's territorial defeat three years ago. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Charles Lister, a senior fellow with the Middle East Institute in Washington, about the significance of the...

As COVID-19 cases rise in China, even by small numbers, the government continues to take drastic measures to contain the outbreaks — a hamster cull in Hong Kong; thousands stuck in shopping malls for 48-hour quarantines in Shanghai; and the threat of a health code change if a person receives an overseas package. With the Beijing Olympics just weeks away, The World's Rebecca Kanthor brings us the l...

At least 18 people are dead, dozens injured and a community entirely destroyed after a massive explosion in Ghana, where a truck carrying explosives for a mining operation collided with a motorcycle. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports on recovery efforts, and an investigation in this gold-mining region of the country.

On Friday in Geneva, the top US diplomat Antony Blinken met with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting comes at a time of heightened tension between Russia and Ukraine as Russia continues to amass tens of thousands of its troops near the border with Ukraine. Host Carol Hills speaks with Myroslava Gongadze, “Voice of America's” Eastern Europe chief based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Joy Crookes is one of the UK's breakout recording artists from the past year. Born in London to a mother from Bangladesh and a father from Ireland, she is a student of history and she brings the same rigor to her music. Host Marco Werman introduces us to the 23-year-old talk of the British music scene.

Life in the pandemic can be confusing when it comes to navigating policy changes and messaging. That is especially true for people who are pregnant, who are trying to decide whether to get vaccinated. Rates are much lower, but the risks of complications are higher. As The World's Elana Gordon reports, a growing body of research in the UK and beyond is stressing just how important it is for someone...

A Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah was evicted from their home this week. The eviction was the latest contentious episode from the embattled neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, about the significance of East Jerusalem for Palestinians and Israelis and how to go about solvi...

The Austrian government voted today to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all adults starting Feb. 1. It is the first European country to make the vaccine compulsory for everyone over the age of 18. But expectations that the rest of the EU would follow suit are fading, as The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

President Joe Biden’s foreign policy team has brought experience and an emphasis on diplomacy to US engagement abroad. That hasn’t always been enough to prevent crises from spiraling, as the Brookings Institution’s Suzanne Maloney explains to The World’s Carol Hills.

A report published this week indicates that the Alaskan fishing industry is harvesting too many of Canada's endangered salmon. Anita Elash reports that First Nations and other fishermen in Canada hope this information leads to a new treaty governing salmon fishing in the region.

A large area of ocean northwest of the world-famous Galapagos Islands will now be off-limits to destructive fishing practices. The government of Ecuador has created a new marine reserve that it hopes can help save fish species from human activities. Luis Suarez is with Conservation International Ecuador, and he is part of a large coalition that has worked to get this protected area established. He...

Students at Mexico’s Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, known as CIDE, a small but prestigious public university, have been protesting against their new director. As The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports from Mexico City, the protests are the latest example of an ongoing controversy surrounding government-funded academic research in Mexico. 

This past week, Rohingya camps in Bangladesh suffered yet another major blaze. It was the fourth one since the new year began. As The World's Patrick Winn reports, the problem is that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are living in unsafe, temporary shelters, and politics is a big obstacle to solving the problem.

The ongoing tension between Russia and Ukraine continues. In recent months, Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops near its border with Ukraine. But the question everyone is asking is: What will Russia's President Vladimir Putin do next? Host Marco Werman looks into the likely scenarios between Russia and Ukraine, and recent US diplomatic efforts, with The World's Daniel Ofman.