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Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed on Friday. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean town of Arica to participate. But this is not your typical carnival. Most of the dances and music come from Bolivia. And it is a celebration of Indigenous identities and cultures. Michael Fox has the story, from Arica, Chile.

In an answer to rising antisemitism in Australia, lawmakers there passed tough anti-hate crime laws last week, with mandatory jail time for giving the Nazi salute in public. Incidents of antisemitism have been rising over the past 15 months — by some counts, more than 300%. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports on the extent of the problem, and what the Australian government is doing about it.

Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic "map" in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That's according to new research published in Nature magazine, which showed the sea turtles are able to find foraging areas using their internal map. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Kayla Goforth, a postdoctoral research associate in the depart...

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills catch you up on a few animal stories you might have missed.

On Sunday, many Russians will commemorate the one-year anniversary since the death of Alexei Navalny. Navalny was the most-prominent Russian opposition politician and a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports about Navalny's legacy, and how his organization is still functioning today.

Last week, a new Broadway musical, "Maybe Happy Ending," opened to rave reviews. It's an eccentric, endearing story, set in 2064, about two retired robots who fall in love. One of its authors, Hue Park, is Korean and the musical is set in both Seoul and an island off the Korean peninsula. The show was originally a hit in South Korea, playing in Seoul in 2016, with five subsequent productions. Jeff...

Rafik Hariri was a charismatic Lebanese prime minister who oversaw an era of relative economic and political stability until his assassination. His son, Saad Hariri, who was also a prime minister, returned to Beirut for a speech remembering his father. Amal Mudallali was Rafik Hariri’s foreign policy adviser and more recently a permanent representative to the UN for Lebanon. He spoke with host Car...

Researchers have used a variety of techniques to learn how nine mummified bodies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo smell. The scents, described as woody, spicy and sweet, revealed new details about ancient mummification practices in a paper published this week by a collaboration of conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and researchers from Slovenia, Poland and the UK. Hosts Carol...

In one phone call, President Donald Trump transformed Vladimir Putin from a pariah into a negotiating partner. And in his remarks on Wednesday, his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said NATO membership for Ukraine is unrealistic — as is Ukraine's hopes of winning back territory from Russia. Both moves were done without consulting European allies. Where does that leave Europe? Marco Werman speaks...

The much-publicized trial of the former coach of Spain's women's national soccer team has come to a close. Luis Rubiales is accused of kissing a player, allegedly without her consent, after a big win at the 2023 Women's World Cup. Rubiales has maintained that the kiss, on TV in front of soccer fans worldwide, was consensual. The player, Jennifer Hermoso, says she never agreed to a kiss on the lips...

Americans have increasingly been arrested for involvement in organized crime in Mexico, according to an investigation by the Mexican news outlet Animal Político, published this week. They found that the number of Americans arrested between 2018 and 2024 skyrocketed 457% compared to the previous period. The World's Host Marco Werman spoke to Cecilia Farfan Mendez, a researcher at the University of...

An update on a story we brought you on Wednesday about a new housing law in Denmark. The European Court of Justice on Thursday issued a preliminary ruling.

An ancient Roman basilica has been discovered under an old office building in London's financial hub. The basilica is estimated to be at least 2,000 years old and dates back to the city's founding following the Roman empire's invasion of Britain. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sophie Jackson, lead project manager at the Museum of London Archaeology, about the significance of the discovery.

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. And for good reason. Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, some of which are associated with the country's imperial history. They're very popular with foreign tourists. But some of the locals in Kyoto say they're simply being overwhelmed by overtourism. The World's Matthew Bell reports from Kyoto.

The president of the Central African Republic, one of the world's poorest countries, announced on X that it was releasing a new cryptocurrency on Sunday — a meme coin. The token, abbreviated CAR, skyrocketed in value, even when the public wondered if the announcement of the new cryptocurrency was authentic. Aanu Adeoye is a correspondent for the Financial Times based in Lagos who was able to get t...

In Chile, pet cemeteries seem to be everywhere — they dot the landscape in almost every city. And they aren't Stephen King creepy. They’re beloved. But they’re also largely unregulated. And that’s causing problems. Michael Fox has the story from the northern Chilean town of Arica.

In the chaotic days when Kabul fell to the Taliban, Zalaikha Wahid escaped Afghanistan with some of her family. Now settled in the US, she hopes to become a doctor, but it's not so easy. She shared her experience with GBH's Stories from the Stage.

Activists say police in Azerbaijan created fake profiles on the LGBT dating app Grindr in an effort to entrap gay men and extort them for money. As The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports, the technique is gaining traction around the world, even in countries where same-sex relationships are not criminalized.

The civil war in Sudan has been raging for nearly two years and has displaced an estimated 12 million people. Now, there are reports that the breakaway military faction, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has stormed the Zamzam Refugee Camp in North Darfur, Sudan's largest displacement camp. Marco Werman speaks with Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale Sc...

When it opened in 1992 on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, the Zu Lai temple was the first of its kind in the region. After a major expansion, it now occupies more than 100,000 square feet and is the largest tourist attraction in the city of Cotia. As part of our Sacred Spaces series, Gisele Regatao visits the temple to understand the growing influence of Buddhism in Brazil.

The closest piece of US soil to Asia is the island of Guam. It’s only 2,000 miles from China’s coast and, for that reason, Guam is covered in US military bases and taking on more. The Marine Corps is building a vast new complex there. But as The World’s Patrick Winn reports, some Guam natives are uneasy seeing more of their land fall under Pentagon control.

The cost of flights from France will rise next month when the government more than doubles its “solidarity tax” on tickets. The tax of flights on private jets will also increase. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jérôme du Boucher, aviation manager at the Paris-based organization Transport and Environment, about the increase on taxes which the French government says is fair on ecological and fiscal...

A Russian man convicted of money laundering is part of the prisoner exchange that freed American Marc Fogel on Tuesday, anonymous officials tell The Associated Press. The deal between the US and Russia is part of shifting relationship that could have direct impacts on the war in Ukraine.

Washington says it is ready to start peace talks to end the war in Ukraine “immediately.” But it's also undercut Kyiv’s negotiation room, saying it has ruled out NATO membership for the ally. The World’s Carolyn Beeler speaks with Ukrainian-born journalist and chief foreign-affairs correspondent at The Wall Street Journal Yaroslav Trofimov about the shifting dynamics. They also discuss Trofimov’s...

Denmark is taking a wrecking ball to people’s homes in neighborhoods where the government says residents don’t share “Danish values.” A law that came into effect six years ago allows the demolition of homes in communities designated "parallel societies." The underlying idea is called "integration through dispersion" but as the world’s Joshua Coe reports, this attempt at social engineering is raisi...