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Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial diplomats and figures of our time. He's 97 years old, and if you're of a certain age, his presence on the national and international stage has loomed large. As US secretary of state and national security adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger is this week's guest on The Economist Asks, a podcast from our partners at...

Namibian authorities are refusing to provide travel documents to newborn twins, who were born via surrogacy in South Africa, to a gay Namibian couple. The twin girls have been rendered de facto stateless, and remain stuck in South Africa with one of their fathers. Advocates say this is state-sponsored homophobia. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.

Researchers have found that a new vaccine for malaria may be more than 70% effective on children in a phase II clinical trial in Burkina Faso. No other vaccine comes close to that. The public health impacts could be far-reaching if the results continue in further trials, Halidou Tinto tells host Marco Werman. He is a professor of parasitology and principal investigator at the Clinical Research Uni...

The Biden administration has approved the sale of state-of-the-art fighter jets, armed drones and smart bombs to the United Arab Emirates. The $23 billion deal was brokered during the Trump administration. William Hartung of the Center for International Policy tells The World’s Marco Werman that, while the sale may make strategic sense, it ignores the UAE’s poor human rights record.

This month, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota became the new focus of a national debate over policing. Under the backdrop of the Derek Chauvin trial, demonstrators took to the streets to protest the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Caught in the middle of it all was a small church, founded by immigrants. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

In Washington state, descendants of the Sinixt tribe celebrated a message from Canada: “Welcome home.” Back in 1956, a Canadian court declared the Sinixt tribe extinct after its last Canadian member died. But for years the tribe's descendants have challenged that declaration. On Friday, Canada’s Supreme Court backed them up. Emily Schwing reports.

India continues to record dizzying levels of coronavirus cases, setting the record two days in a row for most-daily infections around the world. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Mathew Varghese in New Delhi about what he's witnessed so far in fighting the flood of India's coronavirus cases.

A 100-year-old law in Italy that allows film censorship has finally been scrapped. In a statement, Italy's Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said: "Film censorship has been abolished. And the system of controls and interventions that still allow the state to intervene in the freedom of artists has been definitively ended." For more than a century, the Italian government was able to block the rel...

When you hear MI5, there's probably only one name that comes to mind: James Bond. The British Security Service wants to put that old cliché to rest. Ken McCallum, MI5 director-general, wants people to see the spy agency for what it really is, so MI5 has joined Instagram @MI5official. MI5 hopes their Instagram posts will attract a more diverse group of operatives — people whose gender, ethnicity, s...

Changing drug laws are allowing Thai cooks to experiment with a long-forbidden ingredient: cannabis. Forget weed brownies and getting zonked. For Thai chefs, it’s all about flavor — because as it turns out, cannabis leaves produce a savory umami taste while providing only the mildest buzz. The World's Patrick Winn reports on the umami-cannabis experimentation happening in Thai kitchens.

Following the guilty verdict in ex-police officer Derek Chauvin's trial, Brazilian columnist and lawyer Thiago Amparo tweeted: "What about Brazil,” in an effort to highlight the anti-racism movement in his country. The World's Marco Werman spoke to Amparo about racism and militarization of police in Brazil.

Law enforcement agencies in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and across the US, are drawing down after a massive buildup. They planned for this week to go very differently in anticipation of the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. Advocates say that militarized response itself shows that the US cannot solve its police brutality problems on its own. They say this country needs international oversight. The W...

Reunion Island artist Dilo took the sounds of nature — from the creaking of arctic ice to waves crashing on the shores of Mauritius — and wrote a love song to the Earth.  She shares her story about how seeing environmental destruction inspires her to celebrate what she loves about the world.

A 100-year-old clock in Japan hanging in a Buddhist temple stopped working after the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck the northeast of the country in 2011. Ten years later, the antique clock miraculously started working again following an aftershock of the original quake.

An ingredient for life has been created on Mars: breathable air. A toaster-sized instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover has taken the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere and made oxygen with it. The World's Marco Werman speaks to Jeff Sheehy, chief engineer for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, about what this means.

President Joe Biden is expected to acknowledge that the World War I-era killing and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire was a genocide. It's a promise that's been made by past US presidents but never carried out. Host Marco Werman speaks to Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and author of “Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide.”

At a US-hosted climate summit launched on Earth Day, the Biden administration hopes to prove what it's been saying for months: The US is back as a leader on climate action. The US is widely expected to announce new carbon-cutting targets ahead of a key UN summit this fall. The big question will be whether they can convince China to join them. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler re...

The lead singer of the Barcelona-based flamenco/hip-hop band, Ojos de Brujo, has gone solo. Marina Abad just goes by "Marinah" now. She's just released a solo album that embraces her new independence, not just as an artist, but as a woman. The title track is called "Superheroína."

The World Trade Organization is in the middle of a global battle over patent rights and coronavirus vaccine production. WTO director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talks with The World’s Marco Werman about why vaccines aren’t reaching less wealthy nations and what can be done to scale up production.

Russia President Vladimir Putin delivered his State of the Nation speech today in Moscow. At the same time, thousands of protesters across Russia rallied in support of political prisoner and opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Host Marco Werman talks with reporter Charles Maynes, who spoke with protesters in St. Petersburg, Russia. PRODUCER:

A plan by 12 of Europe's top football teams to form an elite breakaway league has fallen apart just three days after it was announced. The new European Super League was condemned by former players, football associations and politicians. Today, nine of the teams said they would no longer take part in the competition. So, what went wrong? The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Yesterday, a jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd. The case has raised questions about police brutality and justice in the US. Host Marco Werman speaks with Peter Herbert, OBE, a retired judge who served on London's Metropolitan Police Authority. He’s also part of an independent international commission of prominent experts studying police brutality i...

A hunger crisis is sweeping North Korea — one so bad that even the regime is acknowledging it. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has exhorted citizens to brace for struggle, using language that recalls a devastating famine that left millions of North Koreans dead. The World's Patrick Winn says a major cause of the famine is COVID-19, which has shut down vital cross-border trade with China.

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited proposal on how it wants to regulate artificial intelligence technology. The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou reports that the EU wants to set itself apart by taking a "human-centric" approach to AI regulation.

Liberian American Alfreda Daniels Juasemai is a community organizer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and the co-founder of Black Immigrant Collective. She tells The World’s Marco Werman her community is bracing for the next incident of police brutality.