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New research confirms that the unique and captivating sound that comes from Stradivarius violins is because of chemicals used to treat the wood, not necessarily the craftsmanship making the instrument. It was long suspected that renowned violin maker Antonio Stradivari and others used various chemicals on what have become the world’s most famous violins in order to treat the instruments, due to a...

Across the US, refugee resettlement agencies and volunteers are facing a historic moment as tens of thousands of Afghans begin arriving in the US. Many will head to parts of the country with Afghan American communities, including Los Angeles, Virginia, New York City, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. The World’s Monica Campbell has been speaking to people spearheading resettlement efforts, i...

Tensions are high in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, following a recent surge of violence and political infighting. Regional peace monitors in the country now say the fighting and insecurity threaten the peace deal that was achieved in 2018, but still has not been implemented in full. As David Lomuria reports, ongoing violence has cut out main trade routes to the capital, Juba, further i...

Tim Fontaine spent 20 years as a journalist covering Canadian politics and Indigenous affairs for the CBC and Aboriginal People's Network. Burned out, he quit. Fontaine, a member of the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, had always been interested in comedy. So, he started tweeting jokes and fake headlines that expressed what he couldn't say as a journalist. Thus was born The Walking Eagle News, a...

On Friday in Auckland, New Zealand, police broke up a planned protest against COVID-19 lockdowns. But at the appointed time and place of the protest, police were on hand to monitor the situation, and found one guy. And told him to go home.

When Europe began its vaccination rollout last December, Romania was one of the fastest out of the block. But that quickly fizzled out and now the country has one of the lowest vaccine-uptake rates in all of the European Union. In the last few weeks, the government has turned to the Romanian Orthodox Church for help. But as our Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, the church doesn’t seem all t...

Blue whales are not just the world’s largest mammals. They are the largest animals ever to exist on our planet, longer than two city buses back-to-back. These gentle giants have been extinct from the Atlantic coast of Spain for more than four decades, but they're now coming back. Researchers are wondering why. Bruno Díaz heads the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Galicia, Spain. He joins h...

The Biden administration is very publicly reversing some Trump-era immigration policies but is swiftly expelling hundreds of migrants along the Southwest border to Mexico every day, many of them asylum-seekers. In Mexico, authorities are doing the same — to Guatemala. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Jorge Valencia, who reports from the rural border outpost of El Ceibo on the Mexico-Guate...

Airlifts out of Kabul continue just one day after bombings rocked the area around the airport. More than 100 people are dead, including 13 US troops. Najibullah Quraishi is a correspondent for the PBS documentary series “Frontline.” He is on the ground reporting in Kabul.  

The ideology of Chinese President Xi Jinping will now be taught in schools. China's Ministry of Education has issued new guidelines that will integrate "Xi Jinping Thought" into the curricula from primary school up to university. It is the latest effort by Xi Jinping to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party in almost every area of Chinese society. Marco Werman speaks with François Godemen...

As natural disasters grow more frequent due to climate change, the mental health challenges associated with them will too. We hear from the coordinator of a community mental health program in Haiti and nine other countries about what works when treating mental health concerns after trauma.

China is stepping up its aggression toward Taiwan, buzzing the island with more fighter jets and bombers every week. As Beijing sees it, Taiwan belongs to China and must eventually come under its control. We hear from the spokesperson for the President of Taiwan about whether the country is veering toward war.

While the Biden administration and their Mexican counterparts publicly debate the future of the controversial Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, they are quietly sending hundreds of migrants every day to a rural border outpost in Guatemala. As The World's Jorge Valencia reports from El Ceibo, Guatemala, the forced removals could create a new border humanitarian crisis.

In the 1980s, Jordan formed what was the third national symphony orchestra in the Middle East. But now, operations have ceased and are unlikely to return. Emilie Pons talks to the orchestra's conductor, who still has a vision for classical music in the region.

Many have questioned the ethics of failing to vaccinate poor countries. But there are economic costs to vaccine inequities as well. The Economist Intelligence Unit forecast director, Agathe Demarais, says countries that fail to vaccinate 60% of their population by mid-2022 will lose $2.3 trillion by 2025. And it is emerging economies that will pay the highest price, with serious political and soci...

The Cuban government has issued a decree that attempts to define acceptable speech on the internet. It makes it an offense to spread false news or make comments that damage "the prestige of the country." This move by the Cuban government comes weeks after Cuba saw the largest street protests in recent history. The World's Daisy Contreras has the story.

Amid the chaos in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden had planned to meet on Thursday at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Their meeting was moved to Friday. Bennett assumed office in Israel back in June, unseating longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett and Biden hope to reset and stabilize US-Israel relations, during this period of uncertainty in the Middle Ea...

Explosions outside the Kabul airport on Thursday have upended the evacuation effort there and taken the lives of American soldiers and Afghans. At the time of the blasts, the airport was crowded with people trying to leave Afghanistan. The World's Shirin Jafaari has been following the drama in Kabul.

Kiki Valera is a Seattle-based musician known as a virtuoso in Cuban guitar. For The World's series Movement, stories at the intersection of music and migration, Valera speaks to Meklit Hadero about his early traditional music education, and how building a shortwave radio out of spare parts opened his ears to a new world of sounds.  

Haiti has been in crisis mode since July when its president was assassinated. Journalist and longtime Haiti watcher Amy Wilentz, author of "Farewell, Fred Voodoo," tells host Marco Werman what she is hearing from friends and sources in Haiti now that the world's attention has moved on.

Vice President Kamala Harris was in Vietnam on Wednesday. Her mission: shoring up relations with partners in the region. Gregory Poling is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He speaks to host Marco Werman about the visit.   

As the fighting intensifies in Afghanistan, several women's shelters have had to close down. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on the impact this is having on vulnerable women.

On Wednesday, the first group of evacuees from Kabul, Afghanistan, arrived in Uganda, in East Africa. Uganda is one of several countries that agreed to assist the United States in temporarily hosting at-risk Afghans and other nationals fleeing Afghanistan. The World's Halima Gikandi reports from the capital, Kampala.

For years, the oil and gas pipeline company Enbridge has been rebuilding an oil pipeline that stretches from the tar sands of western Canada across the border into Minnesota. It passes through delicate watersheds and Indigenous lands. It's nearly complete but protests against the pipeline continue. Environmental activists and some northern Minnesota Ojibwe bands argue the pipeline's new route open...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is legally required to step down after his term ends. But critics of the brash and often foul-mouthed leader may not be able to get rid of him so easily. Duterte has announced he will run for vice president next year. Duterte says he wants to continue his “crusade." Host Marco Werman speaks with The World's Southeast Asia correspondent Patrick Winn.