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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday held a confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden's nominee to represent the US at the United Nations. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a veteran diplomat with more than 30 years of experience at the State Department, faced questions about Biden’s priorities for the US to reengage internationally. The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports.

A year ago, in 2020, Jacob Cuenca was enthusiastic to vote for former President Donald Trump in his first presidential election. But living through the pandemic and a tumultuous election cycle changed his mind. For our “Every 30 Seconds” series, reporter Danny Rivero with WLRN in Miami checks in with Cuenca on the election aftermath. Then, Marco Werman talks to Rivero on his year covering the Lati...

A video posted by the Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi on the 10th anniversary of the uprising in Tahrir Square offered a tribute to the revolutionaries who battled Egyptian security forces in 2011. After Hamdi posted the video, he was arrested for allegedly misusing social media and spreading false news. The protests in Egypt that began this week 10 years ago brought down the regime of Hosni Muba...

Violent protests have erupted in several cities in the Netherlands for the past three nights after officials imposed a new 9 p.m.- to-4:30 am curfew. The Dutch have not experienced a curfew since the Nazis occupied Holland during World War II. Mascha ten Bruggencate, who chairs the council of Amsterdam’s central district, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the unrest.

Concerns over some new variants of the coronavirus have prompted regions in Europe to restrict travel. The US, too. As places try to limit the spread of the coronavirus, scientists are busy tracking them down to learn more about how they impact vaccines, treatments and the pandemic itself. Host Marco Werman gets an update from The World’s Elana Gordon, who has been following the developments.

On Tuesday, one of President Biden’s longtime confidants, Antony Blinken, was confirmed as the next US secretary of state. Blinken is a longtime statesman and foreign policy expert. Under the Obama administration, he served as the deputy national security adviser and later deputy secretary of state. Blinken is entering the job at a time of crisis. The pandemic, climate change and US adversaries ab...

Most ski resorts in Europe are shut down this winter because of the pandemic. But Austria decided to keep running the lifts. Amanda Peacher reports that still, tourist areas in the Austrian Alps are struggling.

Israel has been escalating attacks on Iranian targets in Syria with recent strikes resulting in nearly 60 deaths in one day. Host Marco Werman speaks with Elizabeth Tsurkov, in Istanbul, about what the escalation may mean. She is a fellow at the Washington, DC-based Center for Global Policy.

John Kerry, the new special envoy for climate, spoke at a virtual United Nations summit on Monday. It was one of his first appearances since the Biden administration announced it would rejoin the UN Paris Agreement. The event was aimed at rallying funds for adaptation — initiatives such as building sea walls or combating urban heat. Kerry stressed that cutting greenhouse gas emissions fast is esse...

In the COVID-19 era, North Korea is growing even poorer and more isolated. Though the regime claims to have zero cases of the coronavirus, its economy is hurting. To keep out the virus, Pyongyang has totally sealed off its borders and now only a trickle of goods and food can come over. Its people are desperate. But don’t expect the regime to beg for help. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, North...

Vishavjit Singh is a Sikh American artist and activist who is usually working on diversity and representation issues in the United States. But in recent months, he has been deeply involved in supporting the hundreds of thousands of farmers in India who are protesting new laws pushed through by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that lift fixed pricing for farm goods. Singh says what's similar about the...

After being inspired by South Korea's K-pop genre, a band named Ninety One pioneered "Q-pop," or Qazaq-pop, in Kazakhstan. But when they made their debut in 2015, their tracks weren't the only things making headlines. The World's Bianca Hillier reports on the conversations about gender expression that have been sparked by the band's appearance.

President Joe Biden used an executive order on Monday to reverse a ban on transgender military service that President Donald Trump had imposed in 2017. Jordan Blisk, a trans man and former senior airman in the US Air Force Reserves, speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about what’s at stake in Biden's decision.

From Moscow all the way to Vladivostok in Russia's far East, across 11 time zones, Russians came out to the streets to protest the arrest of opposition politician, Alexei Navalny. Navalny is Russian President Vladimir Putin's harshest critic. The protesters believe that Navalny's arrest was political and that the charges against him have been fabricated by the Kremlin. Host Marco Werman digs into...

In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol by extremist Trump supporters, leaders in the US House and Senate are considering strengthening laws that allow federal law enforcement to investigate and charge domestic terrorists. But as The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, many civil rights groups oppose that move, arguing it will only lead to authorities abusing their power and disproportionately...

Over 90% of British fishermen are reported to have voted in favor of Brexit. Now just three weeks since Britain formally left the European Union, the fishing industry says it's in crisis. All the red tape involved in getting produce from the UK to markets in the European Union has caused long border delays with lorry loads of fish being turned back. As The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry r...

Monday marks 10 years since the beginning of Egypt's Jan. 25 revolution. Millions of Egyptians marched for political freedom, economic reform and human rights during the protests. But Egypt's human rights record remains abysmal according to international human rights groups. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Mai El-Sadany from the Tahrir Institute in Washington, DC, to discuss the situation toda...

In dozens of cities this past weekend, Brazilians from both the left and right called for President Jair Bolsonaro's impeachment because of his handling of the COVID-19 crisis, which has killed 215,000 people. Michael Fox in Brazil takes us to the largest coordinated protest against Bolsonaro since the beginning of the pandemic.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Sunday that he tested positive for COVID-19 and was receiving treatment for mild symptoms. López Obrador, 68, has refused to wear a face mask in public, has continued to travel on commercial flights and has met with top officials from his government and state governments throughout the pandemic.

As oceans rise, the Polynesian islands in the Pacific will be one of the first places on the planet to see drastic effects from climate change. Ashley Westerman visited a pearl farm in French Polynesia where new techniques lessen the impact of the industry on the environment.

Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, a young transgender man, was found dead in the middle of a highway in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 9. Valentín's death marked the seventh known transgender person to be killed on the island in the past 12 months. Advocates are urging authorities to consider his death a hate crime and to take further actions to stop the anti-trans violence in Puerto Rico. The W...

The rumor mill heated up on Thursday after a report in The Times of London said the summer Olympics would be called off. But officials with the International Olympic Committee say that the games are on schedule. Host Carol Hills has a quick update.  

With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, South Korea is increasing incentives for couples to have children. But only for traditional families. Jason Strother reports from Seoul.

As President Joe Biden and his foreign policy team get to work, one country presents some big challenges: China. Minutes after Biden was sworn in, Beijing slapped sanctions on more than two dozen US officials from the Trump administration. Another complicated issue is Taiwan. To talk through what's going on with US-China relations at the start of the Biden era, host Carol Hills speaks with Bonnie...

One of Joe Biden's first moves as president was to sign an executive order canceling the permit for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, which was designed to move crude oil from Canada's oil sands across the border, destined for refineries on the US Gulf Coast. Political scientist and energy policy expert Kathryn Harrison at The University of British Columbia speaks with Carol Hills about what...