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The rollout for distributing vaccines to the 27 countries part of the European Union has been a nightmare. Pharma companies have been slow to deliver on their promises and leaders are struggling to manage expectations. There's a lot of blame going around. The EU vaccine mess is a topic discussed in a recent episode in the podcast "The Intelligence," brought to us by our partners at Economist Radio...

The United Kingdom now has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates per capita in the world. One way to stop the spread has been gaining attention — put people in hotels to quarantine. Travelers now flying into Britain — from 30 countries — will soon have to stay in a government-selected isolation hotel at their own cost. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Alisi Tulua, project director of the Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander COVID-19 Data Policy Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, tells Marco Werman that while California is easing its lockdown restrictions, Native Hawaiian and Pacific islanders in the state are still experiencing high infection rates.

The 2020 presidential elections were steeped in controversy, misinformation -- and in some instances, violence. Now there’s a new president in office. The Latino electorate was important to Democrat Joe Biden’s win. Especially in states like Arizona and Georgia. Naomi Prioleau with station WUNC in North Carolina reports on whether demographic changes there might lead to a shift in that Republican...

Long before Wuhan became known as the city where the first cases of the coronavirus were found, it had built a very different reputation. Wuhan has been a hotbed of punk and indie rock for 25 years now. Rebecca Kanthor visited Wuhan and talked to some of the city’s best-known bands about the impact of the pandemic on the live music scene.

The global race toward the mass vaccination of populations continues with new vaccines popping up — including a single-shot dose in the pipeline. But there's also new information about just how effective vaccines may be against new strains of the coronavirus. Host Carol Hills talks with Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health.  

Reporter Martha Dalton brings a final update from young Latina voter Leticia Arcila and her younger cousin. They weigh in on affordable health care, health insurance, and immigration changes under a Biden admin. Then, host Marco Werman chats with Dalton who shares her views on covering a long election cycle in Georgia.

Cleaning, cooking, taking care of children — this is work typically done in the home, often totally unpaid, and overwhelmingly, around the world, done by women. But a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is putting forward a bold proposal that could change that. Host Marco Werman speaks to Prabha Kotiswaran, a professor of law and justice at King's College London.

Many of the largest countries in the world have committed to ambitious plans to go carbon neutral by midcentury. But carbon neutral does not mean zero emissions. It means reducing emissions, but also offsetting them. This week on the weekly look at climate solutions, The Big Fix, The World’s Anna Kusmer explains what offsets are, how they're used, and whether or not they're worth the downsides.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is upping its commitments in the fight against climate change. It's setting a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by the end of the decade. The IOC is doing this through the Olympic Forest Project, and within three years, officials say the Olympics will actually be removing more carbon from the air than it emits.

With less than six months until the Tokyo Olympics, officials are still finalizing plans for how to keep athletes safe from the coronavirus. This week, the International Olympic Committee said they support prioritizing vaccinating vulnerable groups and health care workers before athletes. Once those groups are inoculated, though, the IOC says it will work with individual countries to assist in get...

For nearly a month, hundreds of Tunisian protesters have been clashing with police. Protests against poverty and social inequality broke out earlier this month, on the 10th anniversary of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, and have since spread across the country. Host Marco Werman speaks with Lamine Benghazi from Lawyers Without Borders, in Tunis.

This week, the Taliban is in Iran for talks with the government. This comes as the peace deal between the US and the Taliban sputters. So, what's behind this move? The World's Marco Werman spoke with Nilofar Sakhi, a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University.

A controversial abortion ban, one of the most restrictive in Europe, took effect in Poland Wednesday night and was met by mass protests. Host Marco Werman has the story.

Many Pacific islands and territories were able to quickly shut their borders when the pandemic hit, resulting in few COVID-19 cases there. But that came at a cost to their economies, many of which rely heavily on tourism. Ashley Westerman reports from Tahiti.

Out of the gate, the Biden administration has been undoing much of what former President Donald Trump did — including his crackdown on immigration. One of the first orders to come out on Day One included a reversal of the travel ban, or what critics refer to as the “Muslim ban.” Biden has also put a temporary stop to deportations. For the latest on immigration, host Marco Werman speaks to The Worl...

This week, President Joe Biden is expected to revoke a Trump administration policy that bans organizations who perform or promote abortions, internationally, from getting billions of dollars in US aid. The policy is very popular along party lines, but international researchers have found it has made getting critical health care more difficult. As the World’s Elana Gordon reports, advocates are now...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday is expected to sign an executive order that elevates climate change as a national security priority. Host Marco Werman gets details from Erin Sikorsky, deputy director of The Center for Climate and Security, who until last December worked on climate issues for the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

Shark and ray populations in the world's oceans have declined by 71% in the past half-century, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Overfishing and a complex, incomplete global patchwork of fishing regulations are driving the decrease in these slow-to-reproduce populations. The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports.

More and more Arab women are becoming professional mountaineers, and they are making history on the mountains. The World's Shirin Jaafari speaks with some of them.

A Brazilian rapper named MC Fioti had a hit in 2017 called "Bum Bum Tam Tam." It was all about booty. But now it's been redone, most recently by MC Fioti himself, all because the title sounds almost identical to the Butantan Institute (Instituto Butantan), which has been conducting Brazil's research into COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. Host Marco Werman listens to the variations.

The Pachamama Project, founded by University of Bristol student Ella Lambert, recruits volunteers to sew reusable sanitary pads, which are then distributed to refugees in Lebanon and Greece. Host Marco Werman speaks to founder Ella Lambert.

The global economy will take a major hit if low- and middle-income countries aren’t able to vaccinate their populations. That’s the conclusion of a new study commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce. Selva Demiralp, an economist at Koc University in Istanbul, is one of the authors of the study. She speaks with The World’s Marco Werman.

All over the world, most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online because of the pandemic. But in Austria, the Jewish community in Vienna came up with a symbolic and lifesaving way to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz, by arranging a vaccination drive for hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors. Host Marco Werman speaks with Erika Jakubovits, the dire...

On Wednesday, the US and Russia extended a key arms reduction agreement called the New START Treaty. The treaty originally came into effect about 10 years ago and was set to expire on Feb. 5. Host Marco Werman talks with Lynn Rusten, who worked on the treaty during the Obama administration. She's now the vice president for global nuclear policy at NTI, the Nuclear Threat Initiative.