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The former European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi, was sworn in as Italy’s prime minister over the weekend after weeks of political uncertainty. Draghi will head a national unity coalition tasked with confronting the coronavirus crisis and economic slump, hopefully with the help of more than 200 billion euros in EU recovery funds. Host Marco Werman speaks with Lorenzo Codogno, a visiting profes...

After being Ebola-free for five years, the West African nation of Guinea has declared a new Ebola epidemic. The government is moving quickly to contain the outbreak. The previous Ebola epidemic killed more than 11,000 people. The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has the story.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump was acquitted in the US Senate impeachment trial. However, some lawmakers are now calling for further investigation into the events of the Capitol breach — including creating a 9/11-style commission. Host Marco Werman speaks with John Farmer, who was senior counsel and team leader on the  9/11 commission and is now a law professor at Rutgers University.

China is successfully controlling the spread of COVID-19 infections. But people there aren’t taking chances this Chinese New Year. The country’s so-called Spring Festival travel season is considered the largest human migration in the world, but not this year. Travel is down by half, as millions of people decided to celebrate the holiday in place. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor talked with some of the...

If you've ever played poker or just about any other card game, you'll know that having kings in your hand is better than having queens. Indy Mellink, a young card player in the Netherlands, didn't like the implication of that. So, she designed a new, gender-neutral set of cards called "GSB Cards." Host Marco Werman speaks to Indy Mellink, from The Hague.

Zimbabwe is struggling to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Several government ministers have died of the disease. From the capital, Harare, Columbus Mavhunga reports that new variants and vaccine access are challenging the country's health care system.

The US ambassador in Vietnam marked the Tet — Lunar New Year — holiday with a new rap video. Emcee Daniel Kritenbrink is a career diplomat who previously served in Beijing. Host Marco Werman brings a taste of the ambassador's rhyming skills.

Last week, nearly 200 German actors came out as members of the LGBTQ community on the front page of one of the country's biggest print publications. Copies flew off the stands. The movement is called #ActOut, and the actors say they’re not staying silent any longer. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.

Elton John and Radiohead's Colin Greenwood are among hundreds of musicians lambasting the British government this week over the new Brexit rules. British performers and crews can no longer travel freely through Europe while touring. Musicians now face having to secure a visa and work permit for every European country they perform in. The new rules, brought about as a result of Brexit, add a financ...

Two years ago, the US and Brazil signed an agreement allowing US companies to launch satellites from a site in northeastern Brazil. Michael Fox reports that Brazil is now expanding the base, which would involve relocating dozens of historic Black communities along the coast.

Banks are going to have to figure out how to make a switch to digital currency. That's just one of many topics discussed in this week's episode of The Economist Asks with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank.

Chinese New Year is usually a time for celebration, but the pandemic has hit Chinese communities especially hard. Chinatowns across the US have seen a dropoff in tourism and widespread restaurant closures. Grace Young is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author and helped start an Instagram campaign to #SaveChineseRestaurants. She speaks with host Marco Werman. 

New research suggests human-made sounds are having an even bigger impact on marine life than we may have thought, affecting nearly every animal in the ocean. The World’s Anna Kusmer reports on the extent of the problem and what can be done to fix it.

This week, South Africa announced it would halt the rollout of 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after results from a recent study showed the vaccine wasn't effective against mild and moderate cases of a local COVID-19 variant. Now, the country is having to reevaluate its vaccine rollout strategy. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

In a call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, President Joe Biden said he would keep Trump administration tariffs on China in place for the time being. Biden is calling for a review of the US-China economic relationship. The World's Marco Werman spoke with professor Michael Klein of Tufts University on this move by the Biden administration and the overall effectiveness of tariffs between China and the...

Traditional a cappella groups cover pop lyrics and full music beds with impressive skill. But one group in South Korea, called Maytree, is taking the genre further. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released after spending three years in prison. This came after a campaign led by her family and human rights organizations advocating for her release. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Bessma Momani from the University of Waterloo in Canada about the impact Hathloul’s release has and how much Saudi Arabia has changed while she's been imprisoned.

China has launched the world's biggest carbon market, which is expected to cover 80% of the country's emissions in the next five years. That accounts for around 20% of global emissions. On The World's weekly look at climate change solutions The Big Fix, environment producer Anna Kusmer reports on how the carbon market will affect China's huge coal industry and whether it can help the country trans...

On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden had his first phone call with President Xi Jinping of China. According to the White House, Biden shared his well wishes with the Chinese people on the occasion of Lunar New Year. But the two presidents also spoke about the wide areas of cooperation and contention that make up the US-China relationship, including everything from human rights to climate change. H...

For years, conflict, insecurity and lack of economic opportunities at home sent many Afghans to neighboring countries like Iran. But when the Islamic Republic became an epicenter for the coronavirus, many had no choice but to head back. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

On Thursday, the USPS released a new stamp honoring groundbreaking Chinese American nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Wu helped discover a fundamental law of physics, worked on the Manhattan Project and was a lifelong advocate for women in science. Host Marco Werman speaks with Wu's granddaughter, The Washington Post journalist Jada Yuan.

COVID-19 has upended our way of life. No more so than in France, where the government is scrapping the rule that banned workers from eating lunch at their desks. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum asks two expats — reporter Adeline Sire and comedian Ian Moore, author of the upcoming novel “Death and Croissants,” about whether the change is here to stay. 

Different sorts of truth and reconciliation commissions in Latin America, South Africa and Rwanda have helped create national unity after deeply polarizing events. Kelebogile Zvobgo, a political scientist at The College of William & Mary tells The World’s Marco Werman a truth commission might work for today’s divided America.

The White House announced this week that it tapped senior national security official Anne Neuberger to head the administration’s response to a massive hacking operation that targeted several US government agencies. The appointment comes after Senate Intelligence Committee leaders in a letter accused the Biden administration of a “disjointed and disorganized response” to the so-called SolarWinds ha...

The White House is attempting to punish Myanmar’s military for a Feb. 1 coup that ousted elected leaders and returns the country to full dictatorship. President Joe Biden has thrown his support behind a massive civilian uprising across the country and warned the coup’s leaders that “the world is watching.” The US will now freeze some of the country’s assets, denying the money to the regime, though...