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Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast and leftist Gabriel Boric will compete for Chile’s presidency next month. As The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports, the two were the leading candidates in the country’s preliminary round of voting this weekend.

Bitcoin is all the rage in Indonesia. The country is also home to more cryptocurrency investors than stockholders. As governments across the globe try to figure out how to deal with the rise of crypto, Indonesia has mostly taken a hands-off approach. But now, a ruling by the country's religious authorities says that cryptocurrency is bad. The World's Patrick Winn reports.

Weeks after being removed from power, Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated through a new deal signed with the military on Sunday. The agreement calls for a return to the military-civilian partnership charged with transitioning Sudan to democracy. But on the streets, many Sudanese are continuing to reject any partnership with the military. The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gik...

Europe is battling a fifth wave of the COVID-19 amid increasingly hostile anti-lockdown demonstrations. Belgian police used tear gas to disperse protesters in Brussels yesterday when tens of thousands took to the streets to object to new coronavirus restrictions. In the Netherlands, almost 150 people were arrested following anti-lockdown protests in several Dutch cities over the weekend. But not a...

Lebanon is facing a critical electricity shortage. The state’s electric company is only able to provide power to residents for a few hours a day. For the rest of the time, people have no choice but to rely on private generator businesses, which in turn, has created its own set of problems. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Panamanian music legend Ruben Blades received the honor this week at the Latin Grammys. Host Marco Werman pays musical homage, and recalls that Blades is a massive supporter of all types of Latin music, and believes all humans are connected to it through a long history of genetic exchange.

He’s been called the Japanese Babe Ruth. And now, the Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani has won the American League’s MVP award, making him the second Japanese-born player to do so. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.

Fighting broke out this week between neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan. But Russia quickly stepped in to stop the fighting and negotiate a truce. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, about the fighting and what implications it has for the Caucasus region.

This week, an environmental activist in the UK traveled to the European headquarters of Procter & Gamble, one of the biggest manufacturers of menstrual products in the world. In her arm was a 6-foot-tall plastic tampon made of used applicators found on UK beaches. Her message? Get plastics out of period products. The World's Anna Kusmer has the story.

Colombia could become the latest country in Latin America to expand access to abortion. A constitutional court has been poised to make a decision, as people on both sides of the issue rallied outside the courthouse this week.

Sofie Lovern is a Mexican American standup comedian from Oakland, California. She converted to Islam as a young adult and, before long, she was married to a Moroccan man, living abroad, raising kids and worrying about her future. From KALW in San Francisco, reporter Hana Baba tells us Sofie’s personal story about becoming Muslim.

Civilians have been disappearing at an alarming rate in northern Burkina Faso, where militant groups and government troops vie for territorial control. Reports of missing relatives quadrupled from 104 to 407 between 2019 and 2020. Host Marco Werman speaks with Marina Fakhouri, head of protection with the ICRC in the nation's capital, Ouagadougou, about the impact of the hundreds of disappearances...

Young shoppers in China are following a new trend — shopping secondhand. Rebecca Kanthor visited a secondhand shop in Shanghai.

The International Olympic Committee announced a new framework for transgender and intersex athletes this week. In part, the guidelines say no athlete has an inherent advantage just because of their physical appearance, gender identity or if they are intersex. The guidelines also move away from using testosterone levels alone to determine eligibility. Host Marco Werman talks to The World's Bianca H...

In a surprise announcement on Friday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he is doing away with controversial new laws that opened up the country’s $34 billion food processing market to the private sector. Host Marco Werman speaks to Chhavi Sachdev, a reporter based in Mumbai.

Host Marco Werman tells us about — and spins the music of — Arka'n, the only heavy metal act in Togo, West Africa.

Climate change and environmental degradation are two ways that China is paying a price for its fast-paced economic growth over the past 20 years. In Shanghai, The World's Rebecca Kanthor reports on a Chinese performance artist who's raising awareness about pollution while making a name for himself in some unusual ways.

Islam has a long history in the United States. Enslaved Africans brought the Muslim faith to this continent centuries ago. But there’s still a sense, even for some Muslim converts, that Islam is somehow foreign or other. That helps explain why a lot of American Muslims choose to travel abroad to learn about their faith. Reporter Jahd Khalil has the story of one convert who moved to Cairo, Egypt to...

The CDC released a startling statistic recently. In the 12 months ending in April 2021, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the US — the highest annual number of fatal drug overdoses ever. The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is to blame for two-thirds of those deaths. Is the US an outlier where overdoses related to fentanyl are concerned? To put the US fentanyl crisis in perspect...

It’s been more than 10 months since the Capitol breach. So far, the government has brought criminal charges against more than 675 people. More than 130 rioters have been accused of assaulting police. One of those accused people is Evan Neumann, a middle-aged man from Mill Valley, California. Last week, Neumann surfaced in the Eastern European country of Belarus, as The World's Daniel Ofman reports...

Boosters for the COVID-19 vaccine will likely be available to the general public soon. Many wonder though if they’re “jumping the line” given that many in low-income countries are still awaiting an initial dose. Nicole Hassoun, a philosophy professor at Binghamton University talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the ethics of triple vaccinations.

It’s nearing three months since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan — and since the US airlifted out tens of thousands of people. About 46,000 evacuated Afghans are still at military bases in the US waiting for homes. But as The World’s Monica Campbell reports, thousands more are still in Afghanistan hoping to arrive in the US, including Afghans who helped US forces. A push is on to fast-track them...

You've heard of the National Book Award, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports on a literary competition that doesn't get as much notice but is a whole lot of fun.

On Thursday, 24 aid workers who helped refugees and migrants arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos between 2016 and 2018 went on trial. The humanitarian workers face charges of espionage, forgery and supporting a criminal organization. Human rights groups say the charges are baseless and politically motivated. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

The leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico are holding their first in-person meeting on Thursday. They’ll enter the first summit of its kind in five years with conflicting interests in issues of migration, trade and the pandemic. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia.