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This week, the EU's top court ruled Hungary's asylum policies breached EU law. Host Carol Hills speaks with Andras Lederer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights NGO in Budapest.

Based in Spain, the Real Academia Española, or the Royal Spanish Academy, is considered the official arbiter of the Spanish language. But some criticize the academy for moving too slowly to recognize linguistic trends that make Spanish more inclusive.  Reporter Lucia Benavides dug into the controversy.

The coronavirus changed a lot of celebrations this year — including the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's life. Still, not even a pandemic can stop Beethoven.  Here's Boyd Tonkin with an audio excerpt from the podcast The Intelligence, brought to us by our friends at Economist Radio.

A quick update on a story we covered this week. In Nigeria, a group of some 300 schoolboys who were kidnapped by armed gunmen was released. Host Carol Hills has the latest.

Next year marks 20 years of U-S involvement in Afghanistan. Washington is still looking for an exit strategy, as it continues to support the Afghan government. This week, America's top general, Mark Milley sat across the table from leaders of the Taliban. Host Carol Hills speaks with Andrew Watkins, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group and a former political affairs officer for the U...

The world is readying for the largest vaccination effort in history amid a pandemic that has killed millions. There is an effort to ensure equitable global, but several countries have already started vaccinations. The World’s Elana Gordon reviews how three countries — the US, the United Kingdom and Canada — are rolling out the first vaccine, and how it’ll get more complicated moving forward.

Abdelrahman Ayyash was a college student in January 2011 when he joined demonstrations that would, in less than a month, force Egypt's longtime authoritarian ruler, Hosni Mubarak, to step down. Now a human rights activist, Ayyash tells what happened next, from the democratic election of a Muslim Brotherhood candidate to a military coup and the swift return of a repressive government.

Khartoum resident Dalia Abdel Moneim offers a personal look at how Egypt’s 2011 uprising inspired the demonstrators who took to the streets in Sudan eight years later to topple the country’s authoritarian leader Omar al-Bashir.

In Egypt, the attack on free speech has perhaps reached its worst point yet since the Arab uprisings. Most recently, three prominent human rights activists were held on terrorism charges for meeting with Western diplomats. They've been released, but the few remaining human rights activists are scared to speak. There's been a dramatic uptick in executions despite vocal criticism from the internatio...

Osama Alfakih is on the staff of Mwatana, a Yemeni human rights organization based in Sana'a. He was in Change Square in 2011 for the protests and the crackdown that followed. He tells why, despite the chaos of war that began in 2014 and continues today, he remains dedicated to the cause of human rights. He says he lives on hope.

Political cartoons, graffiti and posters were a huge part of the Arab uprising protests. A long-established rule they broke (and one that encouraged more protests) was to depict Arab leaders literally — not just symbolically. The World's Carol Hills catches up with two cartoonists who broke those rules during the Arab uprisings: Syria's Ali Ferzat and Egypt's Anwar.

Libyan American poet Khaled Mattawa penned "Now That We Have Tasted Hope" in 2011, on the heels of an uprising in Libya that led to the ousting of President Muammar Gaddafi. Looking back, the poem's message of hope still resonates.

The Arab uprisings that began in 2010 led to civil wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Those wars caused some of the biggest mass displacements in our recent history. Host Marco Werman speaks with UNHCR adviser Shaden Khallaf about the lessons learned.

The Arab uprisings were among the first major protests in the social media age. Collectively they’ve been described as an internet revolution. An uprising powered by Twitter and Facebook. But how big a role did social media really play? The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou reports.

The Arab uprisings began in Tunisia, with the self-immolation of fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi, and quickly spread to several Arab countries, leading to the fall of dictators. Ten years on, we ask: What is the legacy of the Arab uprisings and how are people remembering the events? The World's Shirin Jaafari checks in with Leila Bouazizi, the sister of Mohamed.

In Thailand, there is a youth-driven protest movement that rages against the conservative establishment. Their most radical demand? They want to tone down the power of Thailand’s palace — an institution considered sacrosanct. Royalty and religion are intertwined in Thailand. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, challenging the throne is seen by many as heresy.

Famed English novelist Jane Austen is known for her wit, self-awareness and realism. On this day in 1775, Austen was born in a rural village southwest of London. But 245 years later, her work remains well-regarded and highly relevant. She’s even garnered a bigger audience during the pandemic. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Previously, in the United Kingdom, a person assigned male at birth who had sex with another person assigned male at birth had to abstain from sex for three months before giving blood. Now, those restrictions are being loosened, and the focus will be on an individual's behavior — not their identity. Host Marco Werman speaks to Dan Costen from Freedom To Donate, a UK group that advocated for the cha...

Lab-grown meat will be on the menu of a restaurant for the first time this weekend. That’s in Singapore, where earlier this month, the government became the first to approve the food for public consumption. Is this a win for the climate? Today on the Big Fix, The World's weekly climate solutions segment, Anna Kusmer digs in.

Two Canadians — both of them named Michael — have been in prison in China for two years. They are being held as retaliation for the Huawei executive arrested in Canada. A Christmas card campaign is now taking place to pressure China to release them.

New evidence from Chinese government documents and media reports reveals that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in Xinjiang are being forced to pick cotton. Host Marco Werman speaks with Adrian Zenz, whose report for the Center for Global Policy shows how three Uighur regions mobilized at least 570,000 persons into cotton-picking operations in 2018 through the government’s coercive...

The court ruling on the Charlie Hebdo attacks on Wednesday was a relief to many people in France, including Lassana Bathily. Bathily is a Muslim immigrant from Mali who became a national hero in 2015 for hiding customers from an ISIS gunman at a Paris kosher supermarket. Reporter Rebecca Rosman has the story.

A French court delivered guilty verdicts to 14 accomplices of the French Islamist militants behind the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. They were all found guilty of various charges. All three participants in the January 2015 attacks were shot and killed by police. Host Marco Werman speaks with a French journalist Alexis Poulin in Paris.

A major cyberattack against the US government first came to light earlier this week. Since then, we've been learning more about the scale of it. Not just Treasury and Commerce, but the Departments of State, Defense and Justice, among others, were all breached. Now, multiple lawmakers say Russia is to blame. Host Marco Werman talks with Lauren Zabierek, the executive director of the Cyber Project a...

Mexico continues to grapple with an intensifying coronavirus outbreak. The country's economy is also taking a beating. In June, ahead of other countries in Latin America, Mexico reopened before it was able to control its first wave of infections. It is also welcoming international visitors — including US tourists — without restrictions, such as proof of a virus-free test. One consequence is that t...