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Just about a week ago, US military officials warned that Russia could be planning on further invading Ukraine. Present Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, hoping to deescalate the situation, but in the days since that meeting, Russian troops have not retreated — in fact, the buildup continues. So what does this mean for Ukraine? Host Marco Werman speaks with Oleksiy Honcharuk, the...

Activists in Chile are on edge. This month, Chile legalized same-sex marriage. But if conservative presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins, those gains, which include same-sex adoptions, could be at risk. The World's Daisy Contreras has the story.

Chileans will vote on a new president this Sunday. And the political divide between far-right conservative Jose Antonio Kast and the left-of-center Gabriel Boric have resurfaced themes of autocracy-versus-democracy that Chile saw at the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. 

The 50-foot straw Yule Goat in the Swedish town of Gävle is a target each Christmas for enterprising arsonists and pranksters who attempt to burn it down. Sadly for the straw goat, we report today it has already burned down. Host Carol Hills has the story.

Ten years into his rule, Kim Jong-un has demonstrated an ability to maintain control of North Korea despite economic shocks and diplomatic isolation. Host Carol Hills speaks with journalist Barbara Demick, author of , “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea,” about the young man who, in 2011, was expected to fail due to his youth and inexperience, but now holds a firm grip on power.  

This Sunday will mark a historic day in Hong Kong, though not everyone is excited about it. The Chinese territory will hold its first election under a new system imposed by Beijing — one in which every candidate must be a so-called “patriot,” meaning they must show pride in mainland China and its Communist government. Hong Kong politicians who question Beijing can’t run — and some have been locked...

As part of The World's regular series of conversations about the pandemic, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with Ana Langer, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Director of the Women and Health Initiative at the  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  about the pandemic-related challenges that are affecting women around the globe.

In southern Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni salt flats stretch over 4,000 square miles and hold the world's largest deposits of lithium. The country hasn't gotten much out of the ground though due to a historical distrust of foreign companies. Host Carol Hills has more.

New York University, which has the largest population of international students in the country, has just canceled almost all in-person gatherings and events and has just mandated booster shots for all students. The university is navigating how to help international students travel home for the holidays or come back to the US to finish their studies. Host Marco Werman speaks to Thomas Sirinides, di...

Central Asia has some of the world's worst air. Most major cities there burn large amounts of coal in the winter, and the air quality in Almaty, Kazakhstan, regularly reaches hazardous levels of air pollution. In 2017, Pavel Plotitsyn, a Kazakh programmer launched the first real-time air quality monitoring website in the country, AirKaz.org. Since then, Plotitsyn has set up a network of low-cost s...

The US envoy for the Yemen conflict, Tim Lenderking, has returned from the Middle East. He tells host Carol Hills about his efforts to promote a political solution to the military conflict that is now in its seventh year, which has triggered what the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Amazon has officially launched its smart speaker, Alexa, in Arabic. The service is now available in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. But creating smart speakers that can understand Arabic has its own set of challenges. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Central banks across the globe are taking action to curb inflation. The Federal Reserve here in the US and the Bank of England announced plans to dip into their tool kits to try and stabilize prices. Host Carol Hills talks with Tufts University economist Michael Klein, who's also the executive editor at EconoFact.

The value of Turkey’s national currency reached a new low on Thursday after the country’s central bank cut its policy rate for the fourth time this year. The move is consistent with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s unorthodox approach of refusing to raise interest rates, which is what most economists suggest to prevent runaway inflation. The World's Durrie Bouscaren talks with host Carol H...

Malta has become the first country in the European Union to legalize recreational cannabis. Other EU countries like Germany and Luxembourg are likely to shortly follow suit. But as The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, it's a far cry from the liberal Canadian model.

After a truck carrying some 9,000 gallons of fuel flipped over in Cap-Haitien on Tuesday, desperate residents gathered to siphon off the precious liquid. The explosion that followed killed more than 75 and injured scores of others. The World’s Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Jean-Gilbert Ndong, a medical coordinator for Doctors without Borders who has been treating survivors.

Haitian police say kidnappers have released all the remaining missionaries they held from an Ohio-based missionary group, Christian Aid Ministries. The notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo had seized 17 members of the group exactly two months ago. Widlore Mérancourt, the editor of the Haitian news outlet Ayibopost, speaks with The World’s Carol Hills.

Since the murder of a prominent activist in the Iraqi city of Karbala, his mother has become the public face of a youth-led protest movement. Yasmine Mossiman reports that this mother is inspiring a new movement of mothers in the country, seeking justice and demanding change. 

Migrants are desperate to get into Poland, but the right-wing government doesn't want them. So poets and artists in Warsaw held a concert called "Chopin was a refugee too." But as The Economist's Europe correspondent Matt Steinglass found out, not everyone in Poland feels that way.

In Sudan, demonstrations against the military are continuing nationwide after the military took power in a coup in October, deposing civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and arresting countless officials. While Hamdok was reinstated in a widely unpopular deal, he now faces the challenge of creating a new government after a wave of resignations by government officials. Over the weekend, Yasir Ar...

The Swedish city of Gävle has put up its annual Christmas goat, a nearly 50-foot-tall, straw structure that regularly is burned down despite the town’s attempts to secure it with webcams and guards. The city's deputy mayor says that so far, its famous Gävleblocken is still standing, although a tiny version of it that stands beside it was torched over the weekend. Marco Werman tells the story.

Ingebretsen's is a beloved Scandinavian meat market in Minneapolis commemorating its 100th birthday this year. While the aisles are filled with customers, and the line runs down the block, the owners are reflecting on the changes in the neighborhood, including the harrowing events surrounding the murder of George Floyd last year. Britta Greene has the story of how those events brought Ingebretsen'...

In an historic feat, NASA has announced that one of its spacecraft has passed through the Sun's outer atmosphere, known as the corona, 94 million miles away from Earth. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 and moves at a speed of 320,000 miles per hour. The goal is to make quick passes into the corona to make measurements of the solar environment with instruments protected behind a thick he...

Susana Baca has led an Afro-Peruvian revival with “Palabras Urgentes,” or “Urgent Truths.” Baca celebrates her 50th anniversary as a singer.

Earlier this month, two unusual facilities opened in New York City: spaces where people can consume illicit drugs under supervision, without fear of arrest. Local officials have backed efforts amid a record surge in overdose deaths. It makes New York the first place in the United States to operate sanctioned facilities. The approach is very controversial and has faced a lot of backlash in communit...