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The countdown is on until the Olympic Games in Beijing. Organizers are facing two main challenges — COVID-19 containment and a boycott movement. The World’s Marco Werman has more.

We are now mere days away from the global climate change conference set to happen in Glasgow this year. President Joe Biden was hoping to attend this conference with a domestic climate bill under his belt but opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia has likely squandered that goal, leaving little hope of a quick vote before Biden leaves for Glasgow this week. To discuss how this lack of...

Growing up in the West Bank during the first and second Intifadas taught a generation of young Palestinians to fear Israelis. For Osama, a year in jail for hanging flags taught him to hate. But a chance encounter with a group of Jewish people made him question his own prejudices. In part two of a two-part series, Shaina Shealy of The Spiritual Edge podcast examines how that transformation took pla...

Egypt's government has lifted the state of emergency law in place since 2017. The law had been put in place following an attack on churches that year but has been viewed as a tool of repression by human rights activists. The World's Marco Werman spoke with professor Samer Shehata from The University of Oklahoma about what this means for Egypt's writers, lawyers, and political detainees.

The taste of water is often glazed over, but a growing group of professional water sommeliers is hoping to bring the world's attention to the different varieties of H2O on offer. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Host Marco Werman remembers comedian Mort Sahl who, improbably, managed to walk on stage in the 1960s and crack wise about US foreign policy on China, or Nixon’s visit to the USSR. Werman offers a couple of examples.

During the pandemic, vaccination campaigns in conflict zones have dropped to the bottom of the priority list. But the stakes, the needs, the challenges and opportunities couldn’t be greater. The World’s Elana Gordon reports.

Haiti is running out of fuel. Among the many different crises the country faces right now — a severe fuel shortage is one of them. Mostly because gangs are blockading fuel supplies at the ports, which are located in areas they control. It’s a display of force in a country still reeling from the assassination of its president in July. The World’s Monica Campbell reports from Haiti on how the shorta...

Jupiter & Okwess hail from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jupiter is Jupiter Bokondji, the son of a Congolese diplomat. Okwess is the name of the band. For the band's latest album, “Na Kozonga,” some of the musical influence comes from Brazil. Carol Hills has the story.

More than 100,000 children in Ghana have already received the new vaccine against malaria. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from Accra that protection against the deadly disease will soon change the lives of millions of children and their parents.

The United States will challenge a UK judge's ruling on Julian Assange's extradition to America. Last month, in a story by Yahoo News, it was revealed that the CIA had previously made plans to kidnap or kill Assange. Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Wikileaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service," which became the justification for the CIA to use a brand of internal law called "offensiv...

Dean Issacharoff was a staunch Zionist, and he could hardly wait to join the Israeli army at age 18. But the beatings of Palestinians made him question his allegiances. When he spoke out against the attacks, the military turned against him. In part one of a two-part series, Shaina Shealy of The Spiritual Edge podcast reports on how Issacharoff struggled to overcome his own prejudices and lift the...

Syria's embattled government is turning international donor money into profits, according to a new report. The scheme involves forcing United Nations agencies to use a lower exchange rate when transferring international aid money to the Syrian government, allowing the government to pocket 51 cents for each aid dollar. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Karam Shaar, a lead author on the report and...

France is taking action against Amazon to protect local bookstores. The plan? A minimum delivery charge for books. Rebecca Rosman reports.

About 3,000 migrants — men, women and children — left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Saturday, heading north. Some are hoping to reach Mexico City and ask for asylum there. Others will continue on, to the US-Mexico border. But as The World's Daisy Contreras reports, the asylum system in Mexico isn't fully working as it should.

One week before the COP26 climate conference, Australia, a leading global coal and gas supplier, has pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the plan would not include ending Australia's fossil fuel sectors. Host Carol Hills explains how Australians are responding to the apparent contradiction between the country's new climate goal and its conti...

Demonstrators are on the streets in Khartoum attempting to bring down the generals who seized power Monday. Dalia Abdel Moneim, a Khartoum resident, talks with The World’s Carol Hills about what appears to be behind the power grab.

Jump-rope contests are popular entertainment on Chinese TV. But parents are sending their kids to jump-rope cram schools for another reason — gaining an edge on their test scores. Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai that jumping rope is becoming a requirement in primary and middle schools throughout China.

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit an all-time high last year despite a modest dip in emissions due to pandemic shutdowns, according to an annual update released on Monday by the World Meteorological Organization. Separately, the UN updated its forecast for additional emissions by 2030 based on carbon-cutting pledges countries have submitted through the Paris Agreement process and...

Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images in modern art. Now, some of his work is on display at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran. The exhibition comes at a curious time after the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric who won Iran’s presidential election in June. Nicolas Pelham is a Middle East correspondent for The Economist.

LGBTQ students experience higher rates of bullying than their straight and cisgender peers, according to the CDC. In Scotland, Jordan Daly is trying to change that with an educational approach. He’s the director and co-founder of Time for Inclusive Education, the charity that has worked with the Scottish government to get LGBTQ curriculum into schools across the country. The World's Bianca Hillier...

A study out this week shows that migratory birds are spending more time in their European summer homes and less time in their African winter ones — raising questions about how climate change could be causing domino effects for animal migration and local ecologies. The World's host Carol Hills speaks to Durham University researcher Kieran Lawrence about the new study. 

Afghanistan will restart nationwide polio vaccinations after more than three years. The new Taliban government agreed to assist the campaign and to allow women to participate as front-line workers. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Amnesty International announced on Monday it would close its Hong Kong offices. It’s just one of the dozens of groups that have been forced to disband since Hong Kong introduced a national security law last year. CF Fan, an independent labor activist in Hong Kong, talks with The World’s Carol Hills.

On Saturday, the Israeli government designated six Palestinian civil society groups as terrorist groups. They claim that they are controlled by the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist group that has killed civilians as recently as 2014. The human rights community has responded with outrage, claiming that the groups are being targeted without justification. Carol Hills int...