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Host Marco Werman speaks with philosopher Susan Neiman, the author of "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil," from Berlin.

Far-right extremism is on the rise in Germany. It's evident in recent anti-lockdown protests, in the politics of the Alternative for Germany party, and arrests of German police and soldiers who expressed an affinity for radical right-wing ideology. Advocacy groups are addressing the problem by trying to reach German youth before hateful ideologies take hold of their thinking. Could there be lesson...

Scandinavia's largest festival, the Göteborg Film Festival, is going ahead this year, but for an audience of one. Lisa Enroth, an emergency nurse from southern Sweden, has been holed up this week on a deserted island, watching the films in an old lighthouse. As The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, she's been keeping a video diary of her experience.

The pandemic has brought along its fair share of viral food trends, including sourdough starters, South Korean dalgona coffee and the tortilla hack. Many of these trends get their initial traction on TikTok, and the latest one — called fufu — is no exception. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports on the West African dish.

The protests led by farmers in India are entering their third month with no sign of ending. The government has conducted temporary internet shutdowns around Delhi after violent clashes between farmers and police over the weekend. Farmers make up the backbone of India, and they're insisting that three farm laws passed in September be repealed. The farmers argue that the laws will decimate their ear...

Marco Werman brings us the backstory to a recording of Indian ragas recorded by the Grateful Dead sound engineer Owsley Stanley. The music was recorded in 1970 and has just been released. Marco speaks to Zakir Hussein, one of the musicians on the recording, who shares his memories.

In his first weeks in office, President Biden has signed a wide-ranging batch of executive orders on climate change. A notable theme is environmental justice. Historically, communities of color and impoverished areas have been most impacted by environmental problems. Biden's focus on environmental justice in the US could also have impacts abroad. To discuss the international implications, host Car...

On Tuesday President Biden signed three executive orders to alter US immigration policies. This includes changes to legal immigration, asylum and family separation. The World's Marco Werman spoke to Michael Knowles, the president of the AFGE Local 1924, a union representing over 2,000 employees of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.

More than 2.2 million people have died from COVID-19 in this pandemic. But on Tuesday, we sadly need to report that one of them is Captain Sir Tom Moore. The British World War II veteran became a global hero this spring when he walked laps in his garden to raise money for the UK's National Health Service. Moore died in the hospital after himself contracting the disease, his family said Tuesday.

After disclosing a sudden spike in COVID-19 infections, members of a First Nation on Vancouver Island in Canada experienced hateful and racist comments online and discrimination in-person. As The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, it's part of an emerging problem linked to the disclosure of COVID-19 infections in marginalized communities that can lead to further stigmatization and discrimination.

Last week, the head of the US Air Academy’s alumni association, Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, was asked if his group’s board members thought the attack on the US Capitol was justified. He waffled. Last night, however, the Air Force alumni association issued a statement saying it indeed objected to the assault. Kathryn Smith, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, speaks with The World’s Marco Werman ab...

Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to more than 2 ½ years in prison. The sentence comes for violating a parole related to a fraud charge. Navalny says he's innocent and that the parole violation came because he was in a coma after he was poisoned — a poisoning the Russian government itself is widely believed to have orchestrated.

According to a new study, published by Lancet, a British medical journal, Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is nearly 92% effective against COVID-19, according to interim trial results. Host Marco Werman talks with Judy Twigg, a global public health expert at Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia.

In Myanmar, a military coup has outraged citizens. Their elected leaders are detained and cut off from the world — and no one knows if the army will lock up even more civilians. But what to do next? Fight back? Wait it out? Seek help from foreign powers?  The World’s Patrick Winn says people inside the country are carefully plotting their next move.

Tension in Europe and elsewhere over limited supplies of approved COVID-19 vaccines has put the world on edge. Some studies project that lower-income countries may have to wait years before accessing jabs. Now, Serum Institute of India, a vaccine powerhouse, is massively scaling up and playing a pivotal role in supplying the world with COVID-19 vaccines, especially lower-income countries. The inst...

A new book in Germany aims to bring attention to the rise of anti-semitism in the country. But it doesn't use the usual approach. Instead, it uses satire to bring attention to the issue. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.

Following the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, many started to wonder how the far-right groups involved receive funding and if some of it might be coming from abroad. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Jacob Davey from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to understand what kind of support these far-right groups were receiving.

Myanmar’s military has seized power in a coup. The takeover happened before dawn, with politicians taken from their homes and detained. That includes the leading politician in the country, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been deposed. The military now has total control, saying it will rule the country for up to one year. The World’s Patrick Winn has the latest.

An unexpected hero is helping clear microplastics out of the Mediterranean Sea:  swaying seagrasses. Their leaves roll microplastics into fibrous balls and eject them onto the shore. The World's Anna Kusmer shares the ways that plastic pollution is affecting the people and animals of the Mediterranean, and the resilience of nature. 

In its final days in office, the Trump administration hastily withdrew most, if not all, of its 700 soldiers in Somalia, and repositioned them in neighboring countries. The move leaves Biden’s policymakers with limited options in Somalia, among them increasing reliance on drone warfare. Hussein Sheikh-Ali heads the Hiraal Institute, a Mogadishu-based research center. He joins us from the Somali ca...

Captain Tom Moore made headlines for raising $44 million for Britain’s National Health Service during the early days of the pandemic. The 99-year-old World War II veteran lives in the town of Bedfordshire, England. In a statement on Twitter, Captain Tom’s daughter said he tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the hospital on Sunday. The World's Marco Werman has the details.

There are currently nearly 120,000 asylum-seekers and refugees on the Greek islands and the mainland. Advocates and nongovernmental organizations say not all of them are included in the country's COVID-19 vaccination scheme. The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou reports from Athens.

Across Russia, for a second weekend in a row, protesters came out to the streets in support of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Over the past 6 months, Navalny’s life has been a never-ending whirlwind. He was poisoned, flown out to Berlin for treatment, and he recovered. Upon returning to Russia, he was immediately arrested and now, for many in Russia, he has become a symbol of freedom in the...

Thi Quang Lam had already lived a lifetime when he arrived in the United States in 1975 as a refugee. He was only 45 and had spent a quarter century in the South Vietnamese army as a senior military officer fighting the Communist North. In exile in California, Thi Quang Lam achieved extraordinary things but never quite moved on from his bitterness at losing his country. Thi Quang Lam died of COVID...

This year, South Sudan will celebrate its 10th anniversary as the world's youngest country. In January 2011, millions of southerners voted to break away from Sudan after years of violent civil war. Now, many refugees in the diaspora are putting their memories and knowledge to paper. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.