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It's been almost a decade since the Obama administration implemented DACA — or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program — meant to be temporary — would shield qualifying undocumented people from deportation and give them a work permit. In 2017, the Trump administration tried ending it, and court battles followed. Now, two different generations of recipients weigh in on how the program h...

World leaders including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Berlin on Wednesday to discuss stability and security in Libya. Libya has faced civil war, displacement and an economic downturn since the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The World’s Carol Hills spoke with Libyan political analyst Mohamed ElJarh about the latest developments from Berlin.   

More than 5.6 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2015, escaping political, economic and social upheaval. And the exodus only continues. It has become the largest external displacement crisis in the region's history and the most underfunded in terms of international help. Marco Werman speaks to Dominika Arseniuk, the Colombia director for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Hambali, an Indonesian pegged as al-Qaeda’s mastermind in Southeast Asia, was accused of plotting the “second wave” of 9/11 attacks. Now, these claims will get aired out. After languishing in Guantanamo, Hambali will be brought to court in Washington, DC, this summer. Patrick Winn has the story. 

Maybe this has happened to you: You move homes, and the art that fits just perfectly in your old place is too big for your new one. That was the case when a new piece of art was moved to Amsterdam's City Hall in 1715, but the painting in question was a Rembrandt — and when it wouldn't fit in its new location, it was cut to fit. But now, a team at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has reconstructed the origi...

For Russia and Ukraine, the Black Sea has been a hot spot, filled with confrontation and disagreement. On Wednesday, that tension spilled over toward British forces as well. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russia fired warning shots toward a British Royal Navy destroyer. Russia says that the British HMS Defender entered what Russia considers its territorial waters near Crimea. The UK M...

In a region famous for the coldest temperatures on the planet, the heat wave in Russia has people heading to Siberia to play in the permafrost and cool down. The so-called permafrost park in the remote Yakutia region in northern Siberia has seen a growing number of visitors recently — often wearing summer attire — having a field day in the snowy and melting glacier valley.

The Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s biggest and only mass-circulation, pro-democracy newspaper is publishing its final issue. The move comes a week after authorities froze the outlet’s bank accounts, raided its offices and arrested top editors. We hear from a reporter at the paper. The World’s Carol Hills also talks with Tom Grundy, the editor of the Hong Kong Free Press about the chilling effect the clo...

Host Marco Werman tells us that actor Michael B. Jordan (of Erik Killmonger fame from "Black Panther") has run into trouble with Trinidadians who think that J'Ouvert, his new brand of rum from Trinidad and Tobago, is cultural appropriation. Many were hoping the man who played Killmonger would not take the colonial path.

Negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi rebel movement in Yemen are heating up. Reports suggest Saudi Arabia is looking to exit the civil war which has led to a humanitarian disaster in Yemen. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Nadwa Dawsari, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, about this latest development.

Britain has a brand new news channel. GB News promises to cover the stories that really matter to British people and not be “another echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset.” The channel's main investors include US Discovery and a Dubai-based investment fund. Some observers are already calling it Britain’s answer to Fox News. But just 10 days in and numerous technical slip-ups and on-air mishaps...

The World Health Organization is setting up a hub in South Africa to give its companies the know-how and licenses to produce mRNA vaccines. Fatima Hassan, director of the Health Justice Initiative in Cape Town, South Africa, tells The World’s Marco Werman critical steps will have to be taken before the initiative can become a game changer on the continent.

Over 800 members of Indigenous tribes from across Brazil are camped in the capital, Brasilia, to protest what they say are attacks on their rights and land. Congress is debating legislation that could weaken those rights, and the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case that could affect land ownership. Michael Fox reports that this comes at a time that the president is saying Indigenous groups...

Some 40,000 humpback whales are migrating from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef, in numbers that rival historic highs. The seasonal migration is happening as Australia considers removing humpback whales from its threatened species list. Eleanor Whitehead from our partners at Economist Radio has the story.

When you think of E. Coli — it doesn't spark positive associations. The bacteria is usually associated with food poisoning or product recalls. But some researchers in Israel may have found a way to use E. Coli to save lives by using the bacteria to help detect land mines. Host Marco Werman speaks with lead researcher and professor Shimshon Belkin, a microbiologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem...

G-7 leaders last weekend committed to stop funding new coal-fired power plants abroad by the end of the year. But they did not name an end-date for burning coal domestically, as the UN and International Energy Agency have both called for. In fact, G-7 countries still subsidize coal to the tune of nearly $5 billion a year. As coal policies domestically and internationally diverge for the world's ri...

Lottery tickets, beer, and yes, straight-up cash: These are some of the examples of incentives that cities, states and nations are trying out to drive up vaccination rates. But as The World’s Elana Gordon reports, amid rising infections, places are also turning to a firmer approach: vaccine mandates.

Soccer's European Championship is underway. But off the field, tournament organizers UEFA are making even bigger headlines. UEFA has declined the Munich city council’s request to have its stadium lit up in rainbow colors for Germany’s final game against Hungary this week. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter made the request to protest an anti-LGBTQ law recently passed by Hungarian lawmakers. Host Marco Wer...

Van Dyke Parks helped create the 1960s soundtrack of southern California. He teamed up with The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Mothers of Invention and many others. Van Dyke Parks is still active and a much sought after music producer. His latest collaboration is with musician Verónica Valerio from Mexico. They both speak to Marco Werman about their new album "Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio:...

One rural Thai district has the beefiest COVID-19 vaccination enticement yet: a live cow. Everyone who signs up for vaccines in that area is entered into a lottery; once a week, through the end of the year, the bovine prize is awarded. Thailand has been slow to vaccinate its public, but as a big rollout begins this month, officials worry that folks in the upcountry will shirk inoculations. The cow...

Russia faces its third surge of the coronavirus. Over the weekend, authorities in Moscow reported the highest number of new infections yet. Irina Yakutenko, a Russian science writer and the author of "The Virus that Broke the Planet,” joins us from Berlin with the latest.

Ethiopians went to the polls today amid a humanitarian crisis in the country's Tigray region that the country’s president refuses to acknowledge. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with journalist Tsedale Lemma. She's the founder of the Addis Standard, an English-language monthly magazine based in Ethiopia.

A lot of us are thinking these days: “Where’s my stuff? What’s taking so long?” During the pandemic, global supply chains have been out of whack, sometimes with devastating impacts. The World's Jason Margolis explains the breaks in the chain.

A man appeared in court today in Ontario, after being accused of running over and killing members of a Muslim family in the Canadian city of London two weeks ago. He's facing murder charges, as well as terrorism. Anita Elash reports that the definition of terrorism is changing in the country.

Brazil has hit the grim mark of 500,000 people dying from COVID-19. Protesters hit the streets over the weekend, accusing the president of facilitating the spread of the virus. On today's show, Brazilians across the country reflect on this tragic milestone.