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A manufacturing facility in South Africa has started shipping its first doses of COVID-19 vaccines on the continent this week, made in partnership with Johnson & Johnson. Until now, African nations have been importing all of their vaccines. As the World’s Elana Gordon reports, Aspen Pharmacare has a very tall order to fill.

Pedro Castillo, the rural school teacher and next president of Peru, rose to power on a populist wave against the country’s political and economic elites. His outsider status could be his biggest vulnerability. The World’s Latin America correspondent reports.

Attention remains steady on the fight for —  and against — DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, created by the Obama administration to protect certain undocumented people brought here as children from being deported. But a growing number of young people, whose parents arrived in the US on work visas, still face uncertainty because of a growing visa backlog. Houston Public R...

The Biden administration announced that it has shifted policy at the US border to fast-track asylum cases. The new policy is called "expedited removal." The World's Marco Werman spoke with the director of research at the Migration Policy Institute, Randy Capps, to understand what the new policy means.

In Russia, a new vaccine trial just got the green light. The idea is to combine a first dose of the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, with a second dose of the British AstraZeneca shot. Right now, only about 20% of Russian citizens have been vaccinated, while vaccine hesitancy rates there are among the highest in the world. Host Marco Werman speaks with Judy Twigg, a global public health expert at Virgi...

Nearly 60 medical groups in the USS this week called for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all health care workers in the country. Meanwhile in Europe, where several countries have made vaccinations compulsory, some hospital workers and nursing home staff have been protesting in response. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou reports from Athens. 

The first person to be tried under Hong Kong's draconian national security law faces life in prison after being found guilty of unfurling a banner and driving into a group of police officers. Chris Yeung, the former chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, tells The World’s Marco Werman that the verdict is another sign that the island’s judiciary is no longer independent.

Sixty-eight years ago on Monday, Fidel Castro’s rebel fighters launched an attack that started their revolution and ultimately toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuban American and former US Congressman Joe Garcia tells The World’s Marco Werman that the island’s residents have little to celebrate.

In Hong Kong, many university students and teachers are on summer break, but for those remaining on campus, the mood has turned dark. An element of fear has gripped those attending these bastions of liberalism and higher learning as the Chinese Communist Party continues to thwart pro-democracy movements. Sue-Lin Wong is a China correspondent at The Economist. She was on today's episode of The Inte...

Mohammed Rezuwan, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, spent the past year interviewing people in the camps at Cox’s Bazar, recording and translating folk tales as told by refugees. He tells The World's Stephen Snyder how, and why, saving Rohingya folk tales is so important to his culture.

More than half of Australia's population is under lockdown again. Lockdown rules in New South Wales, which includes Sydney, the country's most populous city, allow visits only from an intimate partner. Single people there say defining the singles bubble in terms of sex is silly (what if the relationship started a week before lockdown?) but more importantly, it deprives them of a much-needed human...

Across France, more than 100,000 people took to the streets this past weekend, protesting vaccine passports. Similar protests also spread across Italy. And in London, thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square, apparently protesting the vaccine itself. Our Europe correspondent Orla Barry has been following the weekend’s activity and she speaks with host Marco Werman.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and President Joe Biden will sign an agreement on Monday to officially end US military combat missions in Iraq by the end of 2021. Host Marco Werman speaks with Michael Knights of The Washington Institute, who says that not much about the US-Iraqi relationship will change.

In Afghanistan, the official deadline for the US to fully withdraw its troops is at the end of August. But the Taliban is already actively on the offensive. The militants have captured more and more territory, at an alarming speed. And that's prompted the Afghan government to impose a monthlong curfew across most of the country. The World's Shirin Jaafari is in the capital, Kabul, and she speaks w...

This week, the California Legislature approved reparations for women sterilized without their consent — many were Mexican American women. Now, they’re well into their 90s. The catch? Only those still alive are able to get those reparations, not living family members. In California for example, an estimated 455 survivors are still around. 

The Tokyo Olympics kicked off over the weekend, and athletes have started putting their hard work to use. China, Japan, Russia and the US got off to hot starts and lead the medal count. But of course, medal counts fail to tell the full story of the Games. The World’s Bianca Hillier shares the biggest stories so far.

President Kais Saied of Tunisia fired the country's prime minister and suspended its parliament. Tunisia's main opposition party, Ennahda, called the move a "coup.” The World's Marco Werman spoke with Tunisian journalist, Lilia Blaise, to understand exactly how and why this happened.

British jazz and soul singer Amy Winehouse died 10 years ago today. Host Marco Werman reflects on, and illustrates, her talents.

For more than 60 Fridays during the pandemic, the Frick Museum in New York hosted an online happy hour called "Cocktails With a Curator." The live episodes featured a work of art from the collection, a cocktail chosen by the presenting curator and a lively chat room of ultimately 1.6 million viewers from literally all over the world. Ultimately, friendships formed, and now folks from Ireland, Icel...

Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has become a COVID-19 hotspot — again.  The delta variant is the cause, especially among youth and those who are unvaccinated. The EU now recommends not going to the region at all. Summer camps are closing, festivals are canceled and bars are shutting early. Reporter Gerry Hadden’s 15-year-old son caught the virus, along with a bunch of friends. But he and...

A prolonged drought in Iran has sparked protests in the country. For the past week, crowds in the southwestern Khuzestan province have been met with a violent response from security forces. Kaveh Madani, the former deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment tells host Marco Werman that the water shortages are due to years of mismanagement and poor planning.

Since president Biden announced the unconditional withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan back in April, the Taliban has been running over districts across Afghanistan. It has yet to take over major cities, such as the capital Kabul, but the question remains about how much longer the Afghan security forces can hold the group back. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

In the tumultuous days since the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, some members of the Haitian diaspora are looking to play a role in shaping Haiti's future. But that's proven to be controversial. Host Marco Werman speaks with Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder and publisher of The Haitian Times.

COVID-19 infections are up globally. They rose 12% this week, as a more transmissible delta variant burns through unvaccinated communities. But some parts of the world appear to remain mostly unscathed by the virus. The World's Elana Gordon reports on one such country, Niger, a West African nation that has reported few COVID-19 infections.

China's President Xi Jinping has made a surprise visit this week to the contested, autonomous region of Tibet. The visit comes as the region witnessed massive economic development, as well as, recent border clashes with neighboring India. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Robert Barnett, an expert on Tibet and research associate at the School of Oriental Studies in London, to understand the sign...