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The government of Japan announced on Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years’ time. The government’s decision comes 10 years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a triple-meltdown at the power plant. Industry groups say the release is safe and in line with industry guidelines, but it's being met...

We're now 101 days away from the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Yes, they’re still called the 2020 Games. On Tuesday, the Olympic torch relay continued its tour through the mostly empty streets of Osaka, Japan. Host Marco Werman explains.

Hundreds of tunnels have been discovered across southern Brazil in recent years that appear to have been dug by an extinct species of giant ground sloth or armadillo. Michael Fox reports that research into these tunnels is developing into a new academic area: the study of the homes of prehistoric animals.

Netflix began streaming to India — uncensored — five years ago. It brought Indian viewers and filmmakers a new sense of freedom. But that's changing. Sandip Roy reports from Kolkata that filmmakers are worried about their creativity being dampened.

The tension between Russia and Ukraine continues to build. Over the last couple of weeks, Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine's border. Now, Ukraine, the US and Europe are on alert. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with NATO allies in Brussels on Tuesday, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will join him on Wednesday. Host Marco Werman speaks with Mykhailo Sa...

There are mounting allegations that Greek authorities are illegally pushing back Turkish migrants making the journey to Greece to apply for asylum. The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou in Greece reports.

The US Food and Drug Administration hit pause Tuesday on Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine. Shortly after, the drug company announced it was delaying the rollout of the vaccine in Europe amid the probe. The World’s Elana Gordon covers global health for the show and joins host Carol Hills in breaking down why this vaccine is so important for the world, and what this pause mean...

France is known for having one of the most vaccine-skeptic populations in the world. Though things are changing: A recent poll shows that 70% of the French population plans to get a COVID-19 vaccine. But as Rebecca Rosman recently found out, some brands are being favored over others, leading to waste.

President Joe Biden has set a new deadline to pull American troops out of Afghanistan for Sept. 11, 2021. According to reports, that's the date the US will order all its service members to leave Afghanistan. It's an important development in the push to end this nearly 20-year war. The World’s Shirin Jaafari has the latest.

In Russia and around the world, Yuri Gagarin is seen as a hero. He was the first man to venture into space. Monday marks 60 years since that first voyage into space. Host Marco Werman speaks with author Stephen Walker, who has a new book about Gagarin called, “Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space.”

Ramsey Clark took deeply unpopular positions as US attorney general in the late 1960s, standing his ground for civil rights, and opposing the Vietnam War. As The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, in later years, he became a strident anti-war activist, earning accolades abroad, but also puzzling many by representing war criminals like Saddam Hussein.

England is reopening its shops, salons, barbershops and pubs after months of a government-imposed shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Hairdressers are especially in demand today. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Anne Duggan, a hairdresser in Nottingham, England, about the flood of customers she received on Monday.

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged to rebuild the US refugee program, reversing the Trump administration's decision to significantly shut the door to refugees — the first time the US had done that since World War II. Normally, about 90,000 refugees are allowed into the US each year. That number plummeted to historic lows under former President Donald Trump. But as The World’s...

Voters in Ecuador have elected a conservative businessman as their new president. Several hundred people cheered on as Guillermo Lasso prepared to give his victory speech on Sunday night. Meanwhile, in neighboring Peru, it wasn’t immediately clear which two candidates would advance to that country’s second round of voting for president. For more on this, The World’s Latin America correspondent Jor...

After 10 years of conflict, tens of thousands of Syrian civilians sit in the country’s prisons. Wafa Mustafa's father Ali was detained in 2013. She's never heard from him since and is unsure whether he's alive or dead. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Wafa about her father's disappearance and the advocacy work she's done to raise awareness about this issue ever since.  

Last week was a big win for workers in the state of New York — especially for undocumented workers who were left out of stimulus relief during the pandemic. But now, there’s help: $2.1 billion was set aside for them in the state budget. It’s considered the biggest effort of its kind in the US. The World’s Daisy Contreras has the story.

Vaccines are going into more and more people’s arms, but can that really catch up with the virus's spread? The World’s Elana Gordon speaks with host Marco Werman about why infections continue to rise, and how scientists see the way out.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Israel Sunday in the first visit to the country by a senior Biden administration official. Austin met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the defense minister, Benny Gantz, and reiterated Washington’s commitment to Israel, saying it is “enduring and ironclad.” That same morning, Iranian media reported that an explosion struck their Natanz uranium en...

What has one of the most renowned writers on travel been doing during a pandemic? That's a question posed to Paul Theroux in this week's podcast, “The Economist Asks.”

Two years ago, the first direct measurements of water underneath West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier were taken by an unmanned submarine sent under the massive ice shelf. The goal was to figure out how much warm water is reaching the underside of the Florida-sized glacier, to better model how fast it might melt. On Friday, the data was published in the journal Science Advances. Researchers found th...

Ecuadorians head to the polls on Sunday to choose between Andrés Arauz, a 36-year-old protegé of Rafael Correa, and Guillermo Lasso, a 65-year-old critic of the former president.

Peru will hold presidential elections this Sunday. The country’s stability is on the line, as most presidents in recent history have been deposed under accusations of corruption. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports.

Since President Joe Biden's first day in office, US-China relations have been both a priority and a concern. This week, Taiwan has been at the center of attention because China has revved up the pressure there, with military exercises by air and sea. Earlier this week at a news conference, Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu said, "We are willing to defend ourselves, and it's without any question...

President Joe Biden announced this week his desire to further regulate so-called "ghost guns": homemade firearms made from parts bought online that don’t have traceable serial numbers. Biden would like to see the individual kits and parts treated as weapons, with serial numbers and a requirement for background checks. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ioan Grillo, a journalist and author of "Blood, Gu...

Most migrants and asylum-seekers are being turned away at the US-Mexico border. But some, including many families and children traveling alone, are being allowed in every day. Often, migrants are released with little more than the clothes on their back. Volunteers are stepping up to help them during their first hours in the US. The World's Marco Werman talks to Sister Norma Pimentel, executive dir...