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Historians consider Riverside, California, as the birthplace of the Korean American community known as Pachappa Camp. It lasted from 1905 to1913, and at its peak was the home of about 300 Korean immigrant men, women and children, who were mostly agricultural laborers. It was founded by a Korean activist named Dosan Anh Chang Ho. It’s a little-known story now getting attention in an exhibit at the...

In Russia, prosecutors are trying to shut down Memorial International, the country's most prominent human rights organization. Memorial opened its first branches in 1989; today there are dozens across Russia. As a pillar of Russian civil society, the organization archives Soviet-era crimes and campaigns for human rights. Now, the organization is under threat. Host Carol Hills speaks with Sergei Da...

The latest COVID-19 variant has thrown international air travel a curveball. Flying across borders was already a patchwork of country-by-country regulations before the new variant was announced. Now, the obstacles the virus poses are even higher. Perry Flint, the spokesperson for the International Air Transport Association, talks with The World’s Carol Hills.

Lebanon has 18 recognized religious sects and sectarianism is built into the Lebanese political system. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on how some in the protest movement are advocating for a different path.

As drought conditions continue in Iran, so does unrest. Weeks of protests in the city of Isfahan resulted in a violent crackdown from the government late last week. This is the second time water protests have erupted in Iran in the space of five months. Is there a growing national movement? The World's host Carol Hills discusses Iran's water shortage and the resulting protests with Kaveh Madani, a...

As Afghanistan enters winter with an economy on life support, the World Bank is putting the final touches on a proposal to free up some $500 million from a frozen Afghanistan aid fund to funnel through humanitarian agencies on the ground. But the plan remains complicated because of US sanctions, and it leaves out tens of thousands of public-sector workers. Carol Hills speaks with Alexander Matheou...

Buildings burn up a whole lot of fossil fuels to run heating, air conditioning, water heaters and other gadgets. Reporter David Kattenburg spent a weekend at a four-story building on a university campus in Sweden, where researchers are testing a variety of new technologies designed to reduce the building's carbon footprint.

The letter sold at auction in London on Wednesday for $1.3 million. In it, the empress called for widespread access to smallpox immunization. The World's Carol Hills has more.

Five days into being declared a new variant of concern, omicron has been detected in at least 20 countries. The new variant is a reminder to the world that the pandemic is far from over.  At the same time, nearly 200 countries reached a historic pandemic treaty agreement on Wednesday, focused on global preparedness and response. The World’s global health reporter Elana Gordon speaks with host Caro...

Barbados declared singer Rihanna a national hero during its republican celebrations in Bridgetown. The country's prime minister, Mia Mottley, also quoted one of Rihanna's best-known songs by asking that she “continue to shine like a diamond.” The program ends with her song, “Diamonds.”

At midnight, Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state and installed Governor General Sandra Mason as its first president. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with the Barbados poet laureate Esther Phillips about the Caribbean nation's efforts to grapple with its brutal colonial past.

In Germany last week, 300 AI researchers lobbied the German parliament to ban AI weapons systems. Stuart Russell, a prominent AI researcher who wrote one of the early textbooks on the subject, is meeting with the UK Defense Ministry this week. One of the top AI scientists in the US, Ronald Arkin, is also part of the movement of concerned researchers. Arkin spoke with The World’s host Marco Werman...

Five years ago, Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed a peace agreement. Since then, deforestation has been on the rise as cattle ranchers, loggers, miners, subsistence farmers and criminal groups move into areas formerly controlled by them, burning down forests to make way for legal and illegal businesses. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Bram Ebus,...

The US on Thursday officially revoked the terrorist designation for the Colombian guerilla group known as FARC. It was five years ago in November that FARC leaders signed a peace deal with the Colombian government, and began a process of reintegration for thousands of FARC combatants. Carolina Loza León takes us to a collective of former female combatants who have created a restaurant and communit...

Since the military took control and dissolved the government in Sudan at the end of October, ordinary Sudanese people have gone into the streets to demand that the generals back down. A compromise deal with the former prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, does not seem enough to persuade many people to stop protesting. The World's Halima Gikandi reports from Sudan's capital city, Khartoum.

Host Marco Werman speaks with former Ouagadougou correspondent Joan Baxter who is following the trial of ex-president Blaise Compaore who is accused of engineering the coup d'état against his comrade-in-arms, Thomas Sankara, on Oct. 15, 1987. Additional reporting from the courtroom comes from Ouoba Boukari, with the independent newspaper Mutations, and we check in with him on the trial thus far. 

French troops in West Africa fired warning shots on a crowd of protesters as they traveled through the region in a military convoy. The incident left two people dead and 18 injured and it was unclear who was responsible for the deaths. The World's Marco Werman spoke with French international affairs columnist Pierre Haski about the presence of the troops in the region and the growing resentment to...

A handful of US cities currently allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. It's not a new practice. The country has a history of doing it. New York City could be the biggest though— allowing close to a million people without citizenship to vote in municipal elections — if City Council approves it in December. Daisy Contreras has the story. 

The military band playing at Angela Merkel's farewell ceremony Thursday has been instructed to play three songs selected by the outgoing chancellor. One of them is a 1974 song by the then East German punk star Nina Hagen. The World's Marco Werman looks into the song, and its possible significance at the end of Merkel's 16-year tenure.

Germany is edging closer to mandatory vaccines for the coronavirus with lawmakers set to vote on the issue before the end of the year. The country has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe. Just 68% of Germans have received the vaccine compared with over 80% of people in Spain and Portugal. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports. 

The song is titled “N’yanyan,” based on an old song passed down over time. Rokia Koné recorded it in one take on a night when the world around her was in upheaval — August 2020, when there was a coup d'etat in Mali. You can hear how she found solace in the words: “Things may be bad now, but it's only a moment in time.”

Recently, Saudi Arabia announced a sudden ban on all Lebanese imports to the Gulf kingdom. This was in response to comments made by the Lebanese minister of information, in which he criticized Saudi Arabia's role in the war in Yemen. Now, workers in Lebanon are feeling the pain. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

In Vienna on Monday, Iran nuclear negotiations are back. Since the US pulled out of the deal in 2015, Iran has continued to enrich uranium and build up its nuclear program. Leaders in Tehran say that its nuclear work is for atomic energy and other peaceful purposes. The US has added sanctions against Iran, yet the Biden administration has said that it would like to find a path toward rejoining the...

Australia's prime minister is pushing for votes in parliament in favor of a proposed new "religious discrimination law." Scott Morrison says "cancel culture" is real and that it's a problem, in particular for religious conservatives. The World's Patrick Winn has the story. 

Honduran leftist candidate Xiomara Castro held a big lead early Monday as voters appeared to oust the conservative National Party after 12 years of rule. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports.