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European countries are opening up to tourists while India grapples with a massive COVID-19 surge. The World’s Carol Hills talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist about the state of the pandemic and how to prepare for the next one.

Reporter Neha Wadekar met survivors of brutal insurgent attacks on villages in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique. She tells host Carol Hills that the fighting in this impoverished region is linked to a struggle to control the country's gas field and other resources.

While the Tokyo Olympics are getting closer, the calls for canceling the games are getting louder. But there’s been a lack of clarity on who gets to make that decision, anyway. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.

After 11 days of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, the sides agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce. President Joe Biden hailed the ceasefire and emphasized his support throughout the fighting for Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas rockets. Reporter Ariel Oseran has the story.

This year, we’ve learned that to stop the spread of the coronavirus, it’s best not to sing at public events. But what if singing is what your event is all about? At Eurovision this year, thousands of attendees are being tested for COVID-19 using new breathalyzer technology. The World's Carol Hills shares how Eurovision is a sort of natural experiment for new tests to detect the virus.

A bipartisan chorus of US lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to do more to protect the thousands of Afghans and their families who face deadly threats for their work with Americans and their allies in Afghanistan. The World's Monica Campbell is following this story, and how one family is hoping for a safer life in the US.

Southern Madagascar is in crisis. The region is facing its worst drought in four decades, and more than a million people there are facing acute food insecurity. The World's Marco Werman speaks to Arduino Mangoni, who is with the World Food Program, about how the pandemic has made it even harder for people to receive aid.  He’s based in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.

Leaders in Somalia are meeting on Thursday to try and resolve a months-long political dispute that has delayed presidential and parliamentary elections and nearly torn the capital Mogadishu apart. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

People often think of the Arctic region as a cold and icy remote place near the north pole. Over the years, however, the region has become a source of tension between Russia and some NATO countries in the area. Moscow has been building up its military presence there, and in response, countries like Sweden and Norway have been building up their security capabilities, as well. Host Carol Hills speak...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined foreign ministers from seven other Arctic nations and leaders from Indigenous communities at the biennial Arctic Council Ministerial in Iceland on Thursday. The US is once again embracing cooperation in the Arctic after talk of a new era of competition startled allies at the same meeting two years ago. In his remarks at the meeting, Blinken also named th...

A pair of nesting cranes have been spotted in a peat bog in the Irish midlands, sparking hope that the birds may breed in Ireland for the first time in centuries. Host Carol Hills speaks to Mark McCorry, lead ecologist at Bord na Móna, a former peat-producing company that "rewetted" the bog.

A landmark ruling in favor of young Germans suing their country for not going far enough to tackle climate change has vastly increased the ambitions of their national plan. And it creates a much harsher outlook for the country's coal industry, which has historically been a huge part of the nation's culture and economy. For the Big Fix, host Carol Hills will speak to the German Ministry of Environm...

No one can say President Moon Jae-in is lacking in ambition. He's staked his political reputation on improving ties with the dictatorship in North Korea. But there's really one man who can make that dream come true, US President Joe Biden. On Friday, Moon will meet Biden at the White House. The World's Patrick Winn reports.

As Israel and Hamas near a potential ceasefire agreement, The World's Sarah Birnbaum takes a step back to describe the militant group in the Gaza Strip and its stated aims.

Israel announced a ceasefire with Hamas militants on Thursday after 11 days of fighting and widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip. The World's Ariel Oseran tells host Carol Hills about the latest developments in the plans for a ceasefire.

China has released the first photographs taken from its rover on the surface of the red planet four days after landing its first spacecraft on Mars. China has now become only the third nation to touch down safely on Mars. The Zhurong rover is equipped with several instruments to study Mars including gaining an understanding of the distribution of ice.

They’re known as the Visegrád Four. It's a cultural and political alliance of four countries in Central Europe: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. But that's not all they have in common. When the pandemic first hit Europe in March last year, these four countries escaped the worst of it. But then the second wave hit in October 2020. By the time the third wave hit the continent earlie...

Since Israel engaged in a full-blown military escalation against the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, hostility has gripped the usually quiet mixed communities of Israeli Jews and Arabs. It peaked last week with violent riots all across the country, and so far two Israelis have been killed: one Jewish and one Arab. The violence has since subdued, for the most part, but tensions between Jews...

More than 8,000 migrants have arrived on the beaches of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week. Many are exhausted after having swum from neighboring Morocco. Videos being shared online show Spanish soldiers beating the migrants and throwing them into the sea. The World’s Carol Hills talks with Jonathan Zaragoza-Cristiani who researches migration movements from Morocco.

Nayib Bukele, the overwhelmingly popular 39-year-old president of El Salvador, is taking measures to centralize power among his allies, most recently removing some of his critics from the Supreme Court. The World's Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports. 

Scientists around the globe have been wrestling with how variants like B.1.617 — the latest "variant of concern" first identified in India — are driving infections and new surges. UK researchers anticipate this variant will become the most dominant one in that country in the coming days. Vaughn Cooper is an evolutionary and microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who has been sequencing the...

As Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rockets continue nonstop, the worst affected in this conflict are of course, the children. On Sunday, comedian John Oliver denounced Israel’s operation in Gaza and pointed out the severe power imbalance between the sides. Renana Botzer Swissa, a 10-year-old girl living in one of the Gaza border communities, which have suffered the majority of the rockets, recorded h...

Palestinians in Gaza have lived through airstrikes before. In 2014, the war went on for 51 days. Host Carol Hills speaks with Asma Kaisi, a political science student going for her master’s degree at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City, who says this time around the war seems more intense.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will have their first face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the Arctic Council gathering in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik. This meeting comes amid a tense period in US-Russia relations defined by sanctions, countersanctions, accusations and deflections. Host Carol Hills speaks with Alina Polyakova, t...

India spends less than 2% of its gross domestic product on health care, but the quality of its health system is uneven in different regions. It’s considerably better in the southernmost states, particularly Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Kunal Shankar reports that even in those two states, the second wave of the coronavirus has begun to overwhelm health systems.