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One of the most notorious gangs in Haiti is holding a group of American missionaries, including children, hostage. The country has the highest kidnapping rate in the world. The threat of being taken hostage is one that Haitians — rich and poor alike — face every day. The World's Monica Campbell, who is in Haiti, says bus and taxi drivers have gone on strike to protest the dangerous streets, bringi...

The wizard of New Zealand, Ian Brackenbury Channell, is out of a job. The Christchurch City Council has decided to stop paying him to provide public acts of wizardry. Host Marco Werman has the story.

New residents in France are required to sign a contract and take classes that help them learn what is considered essential French values. They also learn about social support systems and participating in French society. Immigration and the integration of new residents are key issues in the upcoming election, with some candidates increasingly questioning what it means to be French. Against that bac...

Passengers on one of the world’s largest subway systems can now enter using facial recognition technology. City officials in Moscow say going cardless, cashless and phoneless will be much more convenient for travelers and that their data will be safe. But human rights groups say this move is the latest expansion of illegal surveillance on behalf of Vladimir Putin’s government. The World’s Marco We...

In the last chaotic days of US operations in Afghanistan, Najibullah Quraishi was there reporting as the Taliban took over the country. Now, he's just left Kabul and gives us an unvarnished view of the new Afghanistan. Marco Werman speaks with the reporter, whose documentary, "Taliban Takeover," premiered this week on PBS/Frontline.

The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland is two weeks away. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has just announced he'll attend after international pressure on the head of the coal-exporting country. Other leaders, meanwhile, are starting to manage expectations about the outcome of the summit. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports.

For the first time ever, the US Food and Drug Administration has given its approval to an electronic or e-cigarette.  It was three e-cigarettes, actually, made by Vuse, which is part of RJ Reynolds. There's been a fierce public health debate in the United States about whether e-cigarettes are a help to people trying to quit smoking or another way for companies to hook another generation to nicotin...

Starting on Friday, Italian workers in both the public and private sector must present proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to work. Through one of the strictest measures in Europe, the Italian government is hoping to incentivize more people to get vaccinated — and to restart the economy. But while a majority of Italians support the new rule, those against it are not keeping q...

A recent shampoo commercial in Turkey featuring a volleyball star has prompted a nationwide conversation about gender and sexuality. Despite a recent crackdown on LGBTQ pride events and activism, Fariba Nawa reports on how young people are increasingly supporting LGBTQ rights.

Social media giant LinkedIn is shutting down its operation in China. Instead, it plans on opening a whole new site called InJobs, focused solely on helping users procure employment in China. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, a reporter at Axios covering China, about her blacklisting from LinkedIn and what this news means for companies hoping to do business there.

In the UK, Conservative Party Member of Parliament David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday in his constituency of Leigh-on-Sea, England. Police say they have arrested a suspect and recovered a knife. Amess was a 69-year-old father of five who's served in Parliament since 1983. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he was known politically as a social conservative and as a prominent campaigner against abo...

Paddy Moloney, master of the uilleann pipes, slide whistle and pennywhistle, and co-founder of the Chieftains. Stories were the backbone of the music Paddy composed and performed. Marco Werman recalls the story Paddy Moloney shared with us back in 2010 about the San Patricio — or Saint Patrick — Battalion.

Nicolas Chaillan managed software cybersecurity for the Air Force and Space Force. Now, he's speaking out about his grave concerns about the United States’ ability to compete with China, and what he has described as woefully inadequate cyberdefenses for the nation's military. Marco Werman spoke with him about why he resigned, what he fears for the future, and what he believes the Pentagon should d...

The WHO is releasing this year’s World Tuberculosis Report, announcing that for the first time in over a decade, the number of deaths from tuberculosis has increased.

An English crime novelist recently urged readers who might be bored with a book to just chuck it across a room, angrily. Book lovers quickly weighed in with their own opinions on the matter. As The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, sometimes tossing a book is just what you need.

Fears that China will invade Taiwan in the coming years are running high. Taiwan’s government recently warned that China will be “fully able” to seize the island by 2025. And Pentagon officials are sounding alarms over record numbers of Chinese warplanes zooming near Taiwan in a show of force. But what is the Chinese Communist Party really thinking? As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, Beijing bel...

People in Taiwan woke up to the news of a deadly fire in the southern city of Kaohsiung, and 50 residents, many of them elderly, died as a result, while more than 40 others were injured. Marco Werman tells the story.

Police say a bow-and-arrow attack in Norway Wednesday night in which a man is suspected of killing five people appears to be an "act of terror.” It’s the worst attack in Norway since Anders Breivik, the far-right extremist killed 77 people in 2011. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Puerto Rico's power grid is in shambles, with blackouts ever more frequent. Now, the island has declared a state of emergency over the condition of its power generation plants. The declaration is designed to speed up the acquisition of essential goods and services to fix the problems, as Cecilio Ortiz Garcia from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley explains to The World’s Marco Werman.

The Biden administration has announced plans to develop large-scale wind projects along almost the entire US coastline. This comes after it approved the nation's first major commercial offshore wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. European countries like Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom are way ahead on developing offshore wind and are supplying a lot of the expert...

The state of Vermont is known for its bucolic cow pastures. And migrant farmworkers have become a critical part of the state’s dairy industry. Many are also undocumented, despite years living in rural communities. With those residents in mind, Vermont has enacted what’s called a Fair and Impartial Policing policy. It’s supposed to prevent state and local police from turning over undocumented peopl...

Condolences are pouring in from all around the world for rising Kenyan running star Agnes Tirop. On Wednesday, she was found dead in her home. The Kenyan sports community hopes to take this opportunity to shed light on the challenges faced by top athletes. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi.

Gunfire erupted on the streets of Beirut on Thursday, leaving six people dead. The violence occurred when armed supporters of Shiite militant and political groups, Hezbollah and Amal, marched through a Christian neighborhood in protest of the Beirut blast investigation's judge. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Randa Slim, a senior fellow and director of conflict resolution and Track II Dialogue...

The characters in the novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the latest Nobel Laureate for literature, encounter injustice and cruelty. But many of those individuals manage to retrieve something from that pain and trauma. Gurnah talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the ongoing trauma of colonialism and the themes of exile and belonging that are woven through his work.

Eleven sacred objects of great spiritual and religious value to Ethiopia have been sitting in a vault in the British Museum, unseen by the public since they were looted by the British in 1868. Now, the museum is being urged to return the sacred objects to Ethiopia in a new legal opinion that concludes that returning them complies with British law regarding museum collections and, well, is also the...