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Normally, diplomats are, well, diplomatic. Not so on Thursday in Anchorage, where high-level US and Chinese officials gathered for the first time since Joe Biden became president. In the public setting of a photo op, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi tossed verbal barbs at each other. Marco Werman untangles the exchange and what it means for US-China relations...

Last week, a memo from Afghanistan's Ministry of Education banning girls over the age of 12 from singing in public triggered a social media backlash. Women and girls posted videos of themselves singing with the hashtag, #IAmMySong. Now, the ministry appears to have changed course. Host Marco Werman has the story.

Russia, China, Pakistan, the United States, a delegation of top Afghan officials and Taliban representatives will meet in Moscow today to discuss a new round of talks to end the war in Afghanistan. The US called for the meeting because previous negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban were stalled. Meanwhile, President Biden says it will be “tough” to withdraw troops before the M...

Today marks seven years since Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula, recognized globally as Ukrainian territory. Crimean Tatars have opposed the annexation and over the past seven years, they have faced persecution by Russian authorities. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ayla Bakkalli, US representative and executive member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, and representative of...

The divestment movement against the South African government helped topple the apartheid regime there in the 1990s. Climate activists are borrowing from the same playbook. For more than a decade, they’ve been pressuring institutions and governments to pull money out of stocks, bonds and businesses that fund the fossil fuel industry. Today on the Big Fix, The World's Anna Kusmer reports on activist...

A group of London teenagers recently put up guerrilla road signs that highlight the disproportional effect of toxic air on people of color. The group, Choked Up, which is backed by over 100 London doctors, demands action from mayoral candidates to tackle traffic pollution. Host Marco Werman speaks with Anjali Raman-Middleton, co-founder of Choked Up. 

World leaders don’t typically call one another murderers. But President Biden this week described Russia’s leader as a “killer.” The sharp words suggest a “reset” in US-Russia relations isn’t in the cards. Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the lessons the Biden administration has drawn from recent failed attempts to jumpstart US-Russia relati...

European authorities have unveiled a proposal aimed at easing travel between European Union countries during the pandemic. The European Commission proposes issuing travel certificates to some people, including those who have been vaccinated. But not all member states are on board with the plan. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou reports from Athens.

After weeks of speculation over his health, Tanzania's President John Magufuli has been pronounced dead. He leaves behind a mixed legacy of development, authoritarianism, and more recently, COVID-19 denial. The World's Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi, Kenya.

In Canada, as in the US, what's legally considered a hate crime doesn’t always correspond to the views of victims and their communities. Canadian police typically can't press hate crime charges, frustrating communities. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, volunteer groups have tried to address the problem by documenting hate incidents online.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives starts voting on two immigration bills: One would offer citizenship to certain immigrants who came here as children. Another would protect some undocumented farmworkers from deportation. The bills may pass the House but will face a big challenge in the Senate. This is happening while President Joe Biden confronts a growing humanitarian challenge at the bor...

St. Patrick's Day during lockdown just doesn't have the same feel. Pubs are closed in Dublin and Belfast on Wednesday. The bar owners have had a tough year bookended in a cruel way by two St. Patrick's Days during the pandemic. Still, some people have come up with clever ways to celebrate on the Emerald Isle. How about socially distanced dancers from the folk dance ensemble Shamrock Bhangra, shaki...

Since 2018, the Ugandan government has been playing a game of catch and release with opposition leader and pop music star Bobi Wine, the stage name of Robert Kyagulanyi. The 39-year-old's latest detention —- which lasted a matter of hours — happened on March 15, as Wine led a protest in Kampala. Wine, a member of the Ugandan parliament, also leads the National Unity Platform, a political party dee...

About a quarter to a third of all greenhouse gas emissions globally come from the food system. Researchers at Tulane University wanted to find out carbon-intensity levels in various countries’ recommended diets. They examined suggested diets in seven countries and found that greenhouse gas footprints varied greatly. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Today, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, leader of Belarus' opposition movement, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Last summer, Tikhanovskaya ran for president against Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian leader for 26 years. Lukashenko falsified the results which led to mass protests in the country. Later, Tikhanovskaya went into exile in Lithuania, after being threatened by authorities...

The chief US intelligence office has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential elections. According to the report, additional foreign entities sought to interfere in the election, but not China. However, no indication of influencing the results was found. Host Marco Werman speaks with Nina Jankowicz, a...

Violet Gibson, from Dublin, Ireland, never made it into the history books. But she did come very close to changing the course of 20th-century Europe. She's the Irishwoman you've probably never heard of who actually shot Benito Mussolini in 1926. Nearly a century later, the Irish capital is going to honor her. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry has her story.  

Dr. Ammar Waraich was trained in Britain’s National Health Service. But he was on a new career path in the US, when the pandemic began last year. He rejoined and began treating patients. But he tells host Marco Werman that medical staff are putting themselves and their families at risk, daily, and they're not properly protected.

Bassam Khabieh didn't start out as a photographer. He studied computer science at Damascus University. But living in Syria, and witnessing the atrocities of war pushed him to document what was taking place. He turned his camera on children and started capturing how the war impacted them. His photos are now published in a book called "Witnesses to War.” The World's Shirin Jaafari spoke with Khabieh...

Washington has placed sanctions on 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials because of Beijing's ongoing crackdown in Hong Kong. The move comes just ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's meeting with top Chinese diplomats later in the week. We get the view from The World's Rebecca Kanthor in Shanghai.

Shootings at three Atlanta-area spas last night left 8 people dead; six of the victims were Asian women. Police believe all shootings were committed by the same person who is in custody. The attacks come as violence against Asian Americans is on the rise nationwide. Dr. Michelle Au is a state senator in Georgia, who stepped off the floor of the chamber floor to speak with us.

The pivotal moment in the over-the-top Will Farrell comedy "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" is the performance of the eponymous duo's Eurovision entry: "Húsavík (My Hometown)." Their faux power anthem is up for an Oscar for Best Original Song.

Human activity in the Amazon has had many devastating effects for animals and people who call the rainforest home — and the impacts are global. A new study shows human-caused forest degradation has made large swaths of the forest become net emitters of greenhouse gases, making the forest as a whole a net emitter. To explain, Kris Covey, who authored the study, speaks to The World's host Marco Werm...

It has now been 10 years since the start of the crisis in Syria. What started as a largely peaceful uprising against Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, quickly devolved into a war — and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. That violence, terror, and instability was the culmination of state-sponsored violence from the Assad regime, but it was also due, in large part, to violence and crime...

Some parts of Colombia have become safer since the government and FARC rebels signed a peace deal a few years ago. But violence in certain rural areas has worsened as criminal groups fight over areas once controlled by the rebels. This is also making things tougher for people who defend natural resources. Reporter Manuel Rueda has this report from Colombia.