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Some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people routinely hide their wealth in offshore accounts and investments through secret transactions. "The Pandora Papers," a film from PBS FRONTLINE, follows reporters from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists — the ICIJ — who searched through some 12 million documents to find secret transactions connected with such figures as R...

The land border reopened today for vaccinated Canadians visiting the United States, ending restrictions that had been in place since the pandemic was declared. Emma Jacobs reports that many Canadians used to driving down to the US for the summer can resume their practices, while it's still costly and challenging for those who cross the border on a regular basis to do errands or visit family.

Iraqi officials say three armed drones targeted prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s home in Baghdad over the weekend. He survived, but the attack has raised fears about the country falling into chaos. We’ll hear the latest from The World’s Shirin Jaafari.

One week down and one to go. The rubber is hitting the road for national delegations who have long days of negotiations ahead of them to discuss how to meet ambitious goals for greenhouse gas reductions. The World's environment editor and correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports from Glasgow, and shares what she's been seeing and hearing with The World's Marco Werman.

The Public Theater in New York has been presenting the first Habibi Festival of contemporary Arabic music. Host Marco Werman offers one example of the performing artists: Alsarah and the Nubatones, featuring a song frontwoman Alsarah wrote in 2019 in solidarity with fellow Sudanese protesting for democracy.

When the US withdrew from Afghanistan late August, Canada promised to resettle 20,000 Afghan refugees, later upping that number to 40,000. But the withdrawal came at the same time as an election reshuffled government ministries, and fewer than 4,000 Afghans have arrived yet. Emma Jacobs reports on the challenges Afghans, many of whom assisted Canadian troops when they fought in the country, face g...

Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, in Mexico, are split only by a border wall. Before the pandemic, thousands of people went back and forth across the commercial areas of the two cities on a daily basis. But border restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 brought new and surprising economic trends to both sides — Arizona businesses struggled, while many in Sonora benefited. As residents l...

A monthslong drought in parts of Kenya is endangering the livelihoods of millions of people who rely on livestock. Humanitarian organizations are warning countless people could be at risk of hunger if the rains don't come soon. While drought is not new to Kenya, scientists say it is becoming more frequent due to climate change. This comes as Kenya, like many African countries, is requesting more c...

South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) took 46% of the vote in municipal elections this past week. It was the party’s worst election outcome since taking power at the end of white minority rule in 1994. John McDermott is The Economist's Chief Africa Correspondent based in Johannesburg.

An estimated 2.5 billion people around the world follow cricket. Many of them have been tuned into the men’s cricket T20 World Cup for the past few weeks. And as with most international tournaments, these matches are making headlines both on and off the field. The World’s Bianca Hillier has the story.

She's only known in public by her first name. Izabela was 22 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to a hospital in southern Poland. She died of septic shock 24 hours later. Her family is blaming Poland's strict laws prohibiting abortion in most circumstances. Polish officials say the doctors on duty were to blame. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry has the story.   

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is taking no chances in his bid for a fourth consecutive term in office this weekend. He has rewritten the constitution to allow him to stay in office indefinitely, and this year his government jailed all credible opposition candidates. The World’s Latin America Jorge Valencia reports on the country’s political repression and the forced migration that has occurre...

The latest high-profile #MeToo case in China involves a tennis star making accusations against a former high-level Communist Party official. The government is trying to silence the accuser and her supporters, but feminist activists within China and the diaspora continue to share the story. The World's Marco Werman speaks to feminist and lawyer Xiaowen Liang about the story. 

Native New Zealander Lorde has a new single, titled "Fallen Fruit." Lorde's song is a reminder of previous generations who did so much of the hard work, the fruits of their labors that we all now enjoy.

At the end of August, Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were digging in their garden in Hamilton, New Zealand, when they unearthed what may be the largest potato ever found. The 17.5-pound tuber has been named Doug and has gained some local celebrity, as Marco Werman reports.

In Russia, the COVID-19 trend is moving in the wrong direction. Since September, daily cases and deaths have increased across Russia — with new record highs in both categories. As a result, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a nationwide nonworking period, in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Host Marco Werman speaks with Judy Twigg, a global public health expert at Virginia Com...

Iran's chief negotiator announced on Thursday that the talks will resume in Geneva at the end of this month. A US deal with Iran was struck in 2015, but in 2018, President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement and resumed sanctions against the country. Since then, the newly elected Iranian government has moved forward with further development of uranium and nuclear capacity. But Iran's economy...

Remembrance Day in Canada is usually marked by a ceremonious lowering of the flags to remember Canada's veterans — except this year, the flags are already lowered. That's because Canada's government called for all flags to be lowered following the discovery of unmarked graves at Canada's residential schools where indigenous children were sent to be reeducated. Whether the flags should be lowered o...

Thousands of Afghans are still trying to flee Afghanistan or are somewhere en route to a new home. The US and Canada have historically been the world's two leading countries for refugee resettlement, but they've struggled to meet the needs of this group. Reporter Emma Jacobs looks at the bureaucratic challenges facing those trying to leave Afghanistan, people who are stuck in third countries or wa...

Booming economic growth in China over the last decades has been accompanied by massive levels of air and water pollution as well as the world's top spot for greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, President Xi Jinping pledged to reach peak emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060. Helping China reach this ambitious goal is environmentalist Ma Jun, who created an app called “The Blue Map.” Down...

Chinese President Xi Jinping isn't at the UN climate summit, something US President Joe Biden criticized earlier this week. The World's Marco Werman has an update on China's participation in the negotiations. 

Planting trees may sound all folksy and environmental, but in Canada, it is a grueling job done by hand. Logging companies hire seasonal crews who are paid by the tree planted. Planting 1,000 trees in a day barely translates into minimum wage. Canadian photographer and filmmaker Rita Leistner spent 20 seasons as a tree planter, an experience she says prepared her well for working in war zones. Mar...

Last week, a video showing a Turkish man harassing a Syrian woman for buying bananas went viral. Syrians responded by posting TikTok videos of themselves eating bananas. Now, some of them are being deported. As Durrie Bouscaren reports, the banana has become an unexpected symbol of rising hostilities against Turkey's 3.6 million Syrians living as refugees. 

Veteran US diplomat and hostage negotiator Bill Richardson traveled to Myanmar this week, raising hopes for the release of American journalist Danny Fenster, who's been detained by the military junta for five months. The World's Patrick Winn has the latest from Southeast Asia.  

How many times over the past 19 months have we all (mostly) said, “I’m hanging in there,” when asked the question, “How are you doing?” A lot. Marco Werman wanted to know how the answer is expressed in other parts of The World.