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People in Myanmar are pushing back against military rule. A week ago, the generals in Myanmar decided to end the country's brief experiment with democracy, leading a coup and taking full control over the government. But in recent days, crowds of protesters have taken to the streets to say otherwise. The World’s Patrick Winn reports.

For fans, SOPHIE was more than a musician. Many members of the global LGBTQ community looked up to SOPHIE, a transgender pop pioneer, as a type of queer "mother figure," before her untimely death this week in Greece. SOPHIE, originally from Scotland, was 34. The World's Bianca Hillier speaks with members of the LGBTQ community to hear how SOPHIE's legacy will live on.

Students and faculty at Istanbul's Boğaziçi University continue to protest over the assignment of President Recep Erdoğan’s ally as university rector. The World's Carol Hills spoke with student Savaş Ulaş Karataş about how this all started.

Going to a cannabis coffee shop is on the to-do list of many foreign visitors to Amsterdam, but possibly not for much longer. City councillors are considering banning tourists from the coffee shops. It’s all part of an attempt to clean up the image of Amsterdam as Europe’s party capital. But not everybody is on board. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

One of the world's most wanted fugitives and notorious drug smugglers has been captured. Tse Chi Lop is his name. He's often referred to as “Asia’s El Chapo," a reference to the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, now serving a life sentence in a US prison. Details of Tse Chi Lop and what led to his arrest are talked about in a recent episode of "The Intelligence," a podcast brought to us by our par...

Over the past three weeks, thousands of protesters took to the streets across Russia in support of opposition politician and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Earlier this week, Navalny was sentenced to more than 2 ½ years in prison on trumped charges. Now, many of those protesters have been detained with thousands in jails and holding cells across Russia. Over the past few days, photos have surfaced...

This week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to create a task force that will try to reunify families that were separated as part of the Trump administration’s zero- tolerance policies. KQED's Michelle Wiley reports on one father, still separated from his young son, who hopes that Biden's plan may help them. Yet, advocates who have been assisting families like his still have questions...

The Bristol Gulls, an all-female rowing team based in the UK, have become the first team to complete the 3,000-mile Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge from the Canary Islands to Antigua and Barbuda in an eco-boat made partially of recycled plastic bottles. Host Carol Hills speaks to rowers Lorna Carter, Phoebe Wright, and Sarah Hunt.

General Motors has pledged to stop making gas-powered cars, shifting its entire fleet to electric vehicles by 2035. They announced the move this week with a viral Super Bowl ad starring Will Ferrell, where he took a humorous shot at Norway, which leads the world in new electric car sales. Norway's new car sales are 50% electric compared to about 2% in the US. To discuss GM’s latest move and the gl...

Two million people in and around Perth, Australia, went under a five-day lockdown on Sunday, after a single case of COVID-19 was identified. Just two days later, some of those people were given orders to evacuate as a bushfire raged out of control. The World’s Carolyn Beeler spoke with one woman in the evacuation zone about one sleepless night deciding whether to stay or go.

It’s the biggest vaccine campaign in the history of the world. Now, eight weeks since the first COVID-19 shots arrived in people’s arms, where are we? The World’s Elana Gordon has been tracking the global rollout and speaks with host Carol Hills about the distribution landscape — the challenges and opportunities — and what researchers are learning so far.

President Joe Biden delivered a morale boost to the foreign service yesterday. In his first major foreign policy speech as president, Biden declared that "diplomacy is back." As the World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, former diplomats say it came not a moment too soon.

Carbon offsets have been gaining popularity and attention as a solution to climate change. Increasing net-zero promises have been driving the demand. While many offsets projects have major pitfalls, one project in the Maritimes provinces of Canada holds promise as a way to change forest management. For this week's installment of The Big Fix, the World's environment producer Anna Kusmer reports.

Marco Werman plays us the track, "Shepherd of Nature," by Zedashe, based in the Caucasus in Georgia. Zedashe is one of the rare choirs in Georgia that is mix- gendered but led by women.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been a vocal critic of the global community’s failure to provide coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries. Sirleaf is the former president of Liberia, and a co-chair of the World Health Organization’s pandemic review panel. She tells The World’s Marco Werman that even the most powerful, wealthy countries won’t be safe, if vaccine rollouts leave Africa behind.

A year ago, the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic reportedly originated, went under full lockdown. The city of 11 million people hasn't had a single reported COVID-19 case since last May. But the experience — isolation, fear and death — changed people there. The World's Rebecca Kanthor reports.

Almost a year into the pandemic, societies around the world are faced with immense contradictions: processing shocking death tolls while finding hope in promising vaccine rollouts. Surgeon, writer and researcher Atul Gawande speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about what it means to be human in this precarious moment.

When the story of the Holocaust in Europe is told, the story of the Roma genocide is often left out. Emilie Pons reports on a new musical performance in Europe that explores the themes of memory and loss within Roma culture.

The Biden administration today announced that the US will cease its support for all offensive operations in support of Saudi Arabia’s campaign in the Yemeni civil war. The move is a significant reversal for the US. Host Marco Werman speaks with Nabeel Nowairah, an independent analyst of the Gulf region.

Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier who became a commander in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. Host Marco Werman speaks to Elise Keppler, associate director of the international justice program at Human Rights Watch, from New York.

It's been over three years since the Trump administration began separating families at the US-Mexico border. Officials said the so-called zero tolerance policies would deter migration. Critics saw what happened as a national shame. In all, more than 5,500 children were separated from their parents. Many have been reunited, but hundreds remain apart. This week, President Joe Biden announced a task...

Last week, legendary photographer Corky Lee died at the age of 73 as a result of COVID-19. For decades, Lee chronicled the Asian American experience through the lens of his camera. He once said in an interview that every time he took his camera out of his bag, it was "like drawing a sword to combat indifference, injustice and discrimination, trying to get rid of stereotypes." Host Marco Werman tal...

In San Diego County, two massive cities, Tijuana and San Diego, share a border. For years, the county had a Republican stronghold. But as demographics changed, with additions of young professionals and new immigrants, Democrats have gained the edge. Max Rivlin-Nadler from station KPBS explores how one Latina is helping change that political dynamic.

For the last 10 years, the organization Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe has trained community members, often grandmothers, how to lend a supportive ear to people dealing with anxiety and depression. Host Marco Werman speaks to Dr. Ruth Verhey, a clinical psychologist and Friendship Bench's program director, from Harare.

The people helping manage vaccine shortages and rising cases of the coronavirus in populations across African countries are some of the best equipped for responding to infectious diseases and the current pandemic. But the continent is now facing a second wave of the coronavirus, and new variants, which could be more threatening. Another big challenge: very few vaccines so far have reached Africa....