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The Biden administration is sending 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate embassy staff from the capital, Kabul. Host Marco Werman speaks with Lieutenant General Ben Hodges who served in Afghanistan.

Lina Tori Jan is a student whose family is desperately trying to leave Afghanistan. They are Hazara, and very vulnerable, so she's trying to raise money to get them out. But she says travel agencies are charging insane amounts of money to get visas for people.

Haiti's image around the globe is often negative, but the Haitian band Lakou Mizik wants to change that perception. They want to highlight the beauty and culture of the island nation. And the way they do that is through music. Their new album is called "Leave the Bones." Steeve Valcourt of the band speaks to Marco Werman.

It takes a village for an athlete to win gold at the Olympics. From coaches to venue staff to family and friends, nobody is at it alone. One Jamaican track and field athlete, Hansle Parchment, knows that particularly well. The World's host Marco Werman has the details.

The US Census Bureau released new findings from the 2020 Census on Thursday. The results reveal a much more diverse country and a decline in the size of America's white population. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research at the Pew Research Center, about the findings and what they mean.

Authors of this week's UN climate assessment found that unless there are “immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions, the most ambitious climate targets will soon be out of reach. The report laid out a menu of five different future worlds, each corresponding with a different level of emissions. What would it actually look like to pick that most habitable world? The Wo...

China is having a #MeToo moment. It’s been sparked by a firestorm on social media after an Alibaba employee charged her manager with raping her during a business trip. Shen Lu, a reporter with the outlet Protocol China talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about the ripple effects of the incident throughout China.

Click languages, considered among the oldest in the world, were once spoken in many regions of Africa. Today, N|uu is one the last remaining such languages. Only one native speaker exists, but there are efforts to teach it to the San children in a township in South Africa so that it will live on. Economist reporter Neil McQuillian from the Intelligence podcast explains.

In County Cork, Ireland, a historic graveyard at St. Matthew's Church, in the parish of Templebreedy, was so overgrown that many headstones were no longer visible. Enter: a crew of sheep and goats, who are being tasked with eating away the growth and clearing the stones in a way that is both environmentally friendly and protects the stones from damage.  Host Marco Werman speaks with Audrey Buckley...

Migrants from Haiti and Cuba landed in South America and are not finding work. So, now they are paying smugglers to guide them, north through a dangerous region of swamps, jungle and rough terrain. Manuel Rueda reports from Colombia on the Caribbean migrants walking the Darien Gap.

As the US comes closer to its complete military exit from Afghanistan at the end of the month, the Taliban is quickly gaining ground, and taking control of large swaths of the country. Some people in Afghanistan are, in part, blaming Pakistan. The two countries share a border that's more than 1,500 miles long. Host Marco Werman speaks with Asfandyar Mir, a senior expert at the United States Instit...

Taliban fighters are on the streets of Afghanistan's third-largest city. The World's Shirin Jaafari updates host Marco Werman about the group's effort to take over Herat.

The World's Marco Werman spotlights the late Algerian singer Idir, who recorded a tribute to the people of Tizi Ouzou, an Algerian province which is now battling wildfires.

The three EU-member countries that border Belarus are Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. All three are reporting massive increases in migrants trying to enter from the Belarus side. These migrants mostly come from Iraq. EU officials are accusing Belarus' strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as political pawns to retaliate against EU sanctions. Joining the World's Marco Werman to...

China's crackdown on Hong Kong has driven many residents to look for a way out, and as Andrew Connelly reports from London, tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have applied for special new visas to move to the United Kingdom.

Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor has spent more than 800 days in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail. Today, Chinese authorities sentenced him to 11 more years in prison. Michael Byers has been watching the story closely. He teaches law at the University of British Columbia. Byers tells The World’s Marco Werman why he sees the case as an instance of “diplomacy by hostage-taking.”

The Greek government has announced relief measures for those impacted by massive wildfires that have ravaged the country for more than a week. Meanwhile, fires in some parts of Greece, including on Evia island, continue to rage. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou spent the day with a group of Evia locals battling the flames.

For 2,000 years, Christians felt secure in their towns in northern Iraq. Former dictator Saddam Hussein made things difficult for them. The arrival of ISIS made it even worse. Now, as Rebecca Collard reports, Iraqi Christians are struggling to hold on to their homeland.

The CDC says Americans should avoid traveling to Israel, France, Iceland and other popular destinations, due to a surge of COVID-19. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports on how seriously travelers should take this advice.

In Afghanistan, three more regional capitals fell to the Taliban yesterday. That makes nine in less than a week. One of the latest to fall is the city of Pul-i-Khumri, in Baghlan province, a vital piece of territory that Chris Woolf knows well. He came under fire there as a BBC reporter back in 1991. Host Marco Werman speaks with Wolff, a former staffer with The World and the author of a forthcomi...

For years, the Afghan government worked to disband and disarm warlords and their militias. Now, it's doing a 360. Afghan officials are rushing to revive ties with militias and get their help fighting the Taliban. Can it work? The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports from Herat.

Climate scientist William Moomaw, a lead author of five previous UN climate change reports, says the report released on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a “code red” for humanity. Moomaw talks with The World’s Marco Werman about jump-starting efforts to reverse the crisis.

The big UN climate report that came out on Monday was almost 4,000 pages long. Needless to say, we could not get all of the important points it conveyed on the air on Monday. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler focuses on Tuesday on "carbon budgets" — which refers to how much longer we can continue with business-as-usual before it's too late to avert worst-case scenarios.

Stephen Anderson, Myanmar country director for the World Food Program, tells host Marco Werman about how families are struggling to put even the most basic food on the table amid job losses, rising food and fuel prices, violence, displacement and a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

This story about the oldest brothel in Bangladesh may not be suitable for all listeners. The woman who runs the place was trafficked into the sex industry at age of 12. Today, she oversees the sprawling settlement that is home to 600 women and girls. The story comes to us from “The Intelligence,” a podcast from our partners at the Economist.