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Before much of the world realized what was playing out in Afghanistan, the government of China was already making overtures to the Taliban. Back in the ‘90s, China saw this group as a threat — but not anymore. Just last month, the Chinese foreign minister hosted a delegation of Taliban leaders. The World's China correspondent, Rebecca Kanthor, talks with host Carol Hills to explain why.

Several British lawmakers have criticized President Joe Biden following his comments on Afghanistan last night. Conservative MP Simon Clarke described Biden’s speech as grotesque. More than 150,000 British soldiers have served alongside US troops in Afghanistan over the past two decades. Last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that all UK troops assigned to the NATO mission there would be re...

President Joe Biden says he stands “squarely behind” his decision to exit Afghanistan. Many are rushing to critique or defend the president, and stake out all the nuances in between. Ryan Crocker, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, tells The World’s Carol Hills why he’s shocked by the haste and the way the Biden Administration pulled the plug.

Now that the Olympic games are over, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga faces a resentful public, half of whom said they didn’t think the games should have taken place at all. After a post-Olympics plunge, his approval ratings are now as bad as President Jimmy Carter’s during the energy crisis of 1979 and President George W. Bush’s during the financial crisis of 2008. The World's Patrick Winn reports t...

US officials may soon recommend that everyone get booster shots for COVID-19. That is according to recent news reports. But, the decision is intensifying debates, globally and domestically, about the handling of the pandemic. The World’s Elana Gordon speaks with host Carol Hills.

In Haiti, Tropical Storm Grace is making an already-dire humanitarian crisis even more difficult. Over the weekend, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake severely damaged several cities. The death toll is above 1,400 people, and nearly 7,000 people have been injured — these numbers are expected to rise. Host Carol Hills speaks with Christy Delafield, who works on global communications with Mercy Corps, and i...

At a press conference in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the insurgent group's intentions to form an "Islamic and inclusive" government in Afghanistan. What that government actually looks like remains to be seen, however. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Asfandyar Mir, an expert with the Center for International Security at Stanford University, about how the Taliban will tr...

Following the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, European countries, including France, Italy, Spain and Poland, are scrambling to evacuate their citizens, and Afghans who worked with them, from the country. Germany, which had the second-largest military contingent in Afghanistan, behind the US, sent in its first plane last night. The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou spoke with one of the seven people...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has defended calls for early elections, saying they come at a "pivotal, consequential moment" for Canada. The World's Sarah Birnbaum explains why.

Lebanon continued its downward spiral on Sunday when a blast at a fuel tanker in the northern Akkar region killed 28 people and injured nearly 80 others. The blast occurred when local residents were siphoning off fuel, desperate to refuel their vehicles. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Firass Abiad from the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut to get the latest on the victims an...

Dogs are much more than a furry best friend. Throughout the pandemic, they’ve kept people company during quarantine. In parts of Canada, they’ve helped transport vaccine deliveries from airports to remote hospitals. And in Italy, they’re saving people’s lives on beaches around the country. The World's host Marco Werman has the story.

In his sixth run for the presidency, Zambia's main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema is claiming victory. The incumbent Edgar Lungu has been in power since 2015. The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi reports.

With the upheaval in Afghanistan and with Kabul falling to the Taliban, many are pointing the finger at Afghanistan's armed forces. Of course, the US government has invested billions of dollars in propping up Afghanistan's security apparatus, and the US military has been at the center of building up Afghanistan's armed forces. So, what went wrong? Host Marco Werman speaks with retired navy admiral...

Thousands of people who worked with the US military are now desperate to get out of Afghanistan. We speak with one young man who says the Taliban has hounded him with death threats. He first applied for a Special Immigrant Visa back in 2014. In the past few days, he's been moving province to province to stay ahead of the Taliban and is now locked in a house in Kabul, afraid to go outside.

This weekend, Haiti experienced a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake. More than 1,200 people were killed, thousands more injured and several cities damaged. Nephtaly Pierre Louis lives with his family in Jeremie, one of the most affected cities in Haiti’s southern peninsula. He returned there a few months ago after studying in Taiwan, where he also experienced earthquakes, and a different kind o...

The Taliban is now in control of Afghanistan. What the group envisions for the future of the country and its people is still being determined. For many Afghans though, this is their first experience of life under the group. The World’s Shirin Jaafari spoke with some women about their first days under Taliban rule.

Chaos on the ground at Kabul airport reflects disorganization in Washington over the evacuation. Scott Shadian, CEO of Sayara International, tells host Marco Werman that the airport must be secured by the US military for as long as possible to continue evacuations via military aircraft, and to also allow commercial and charter flights to land and pick up Afghans who want to leave.

Scenes of chaos and confusion at Kabul’s airport included crowds of Afghans running along the tarmac, chasing departing US Air Force planes down runways, with some civilians even clinging to the wheels of planes. US troops who are guarding the facility fired shots in the air to try to disperse the crowd. The pandemonium left at least seven people dead.

This week's UN climate assessment has a new focus on regional impacts of climate change. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports on a few of the findings.

Thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995. It was the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II. For decades, Serb leaders in Bosnia-Herzegovina have denied that it was a genocide, even after two top international courts declared it as one. Now, a new law banning genocide denial has come into force in the country. But it is already...

For centuries, a community of Jews thrived in Mosul, in what is now modern-day Iraq. In the 1950s, most of them fled to Israel, and their history in Mosul was erased. Now, an Iraqi historian is collecting their stories. Rebecca Collard reports on his efforts to revive Mosul's Jewish past.

Wildfires in Algeria this week remain largely out of control. At least 69 people have died in numerous blazes across the country that began on Monday. The fires are being driven by extreme temperatures and high winds. Reporter Maher Mezahi spent time in the most impacted region yesterday. He speaks to The World's Marco Werman about what people have been experiencing and the government's response t...

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the US has restricted foreign travel into the country. But when that changes, the Biden administration plans to require that people are vaccinated against COVID-19. The policy is still being developed, but across the ocean, Europe is a few steps ahead: It has already established a “green pass,” so that travelers can show their vaccination status and cross borde...

The Biden administration is calling on OPEC to increase oil production in an effort to lower prices for Americans at the gas pump. OPEC is a group of oil producing countries that determine oil output and is a favorite target of US presidents. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Ellen Wald, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to unpack the global oil game.

The violent insurgency in the northern Mozambiquan province of Cabo Delgado has killed thousands of people since it began in 2017. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and the United Nations has warned it could cause a hunger emergency. While Mozambique’s government has struggled to stop the insurgency, this week, the tide might be turning. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.