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The pandemic has upended a lot of plans this year — including a UN summit that was supposed to happen in Glasgow this month, where countries were expected to announce ambitious new targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. It was postponed for a year. The United Nations and partner countries are instead hosting an online event tomorrow to mark the fifth anniversary of the...

Content moderators see the worst of the internet so that end users don't have to. They sift through graphic posts, hate speech and other problematic content on popular social media platforms, and decide what can stay up and what needs to come down. The vast majority are contractors who work in precarious conditions for relatively low wages. Now some of them are beginning to organize to demand bett...

As he has in years past, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation honoring this week as Human Rights Week. As The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, the proclamation was the final salvo in a four-year campaign by Evangelicals in the Trump administration to narrow the definition of human rights in a way that has angered many human rights activists.

Last weekend, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — to its original form and to start accepting new applications. The Obama-era program has helped protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation — but the Trump administration ended it in 2017. After the latest court decision, the window to submit...

Writer and journalist Kareem Shaheen joins host The World’s Carol Hills to talk about his beef with the many unconventional takes on hummus, the humble but beloved Middle Eastern mezze.

A team of British and Colombian archaeologists has been working for the past few years to uncover an enormous stretch of paintings covering cliff faces in the Amazon in Colombia. Host Marco Werman speaks to Mark Robinson, an archaeologist on the project.

Mexican lawmakers are delaying legislation to legalize medical as well as recreational uses of marijuana. But as The World’s Jorge Valencia reports from Mexico City, the mere fact that lawmakers are considering the proposal is a major breakthrough for activists.

In 2001, Portugal dramatically changed its approach to addiction and decriminalized all drugs. The country has long championed how treating addiction as a health issue and not a criminal one has helped reduce problematic drug use. Nearly 20 years later, Oregon has become the first US state to decriminalize hard drugs, with voters approving the measure in November. The state is pulling directly fro...

In what one antitrust expert in Europe described as “the most dramatic development in global antitrust in decades,” more than 40 US states and the federal government are suing Facebook to break it up. Host Carol Hills speaks with The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou about the US lawsuits and how they compare to recent antitrust actions in Europe.

This week, Brazil, the world's sixth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, said it would stop emitting new greenhouse gasses by 2060. But it told the UN that it would not strengthen its goal for cutting carbon emissions in the near-term, by 2030. Experts and activists are critical of the Bolsonaro government's plans, saying that they lack ambition and are a shameful response to the climate crisis.

The EU's biggest oil producer has decided to call it quits. The Danish parliament voted this month to stop issuing new leases and end oil production by 2050, making Denmark the first major-oil producing country in the world to decide to phase out production. Today on our weekly look at climate change solutions, The World host Carol Hills speaks to Danish climate minister Dan Jørgensen about the pl...

The youngest casualties of the war in Yemen are not from fighting. Malnutrition is killing some Yemeni children and stunting the growth of others. A new film documents the work of doctors and nurses who treat these children. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Aida Al-Sadeeq, whose work at a nutrition clinic in Aden, Yemen, is saving young lives.

US senators have failed to block a $23 billion sale of American stealth fighter jets and weaponized drones to the United Arab Emirates. Host Carol Hills outlines the sale and how it reflects US priorities in the Middle East in the final weeks of the Trump administration.

Israel and Morocco said Thursday they have agreed to normalize relations. As part of the deal, the US agreed to recognize Morocco’s long-disputed claim over the Western Sahara region. Also, a prosecutor in Lebanon investigating the Beirut port blast in August that killed more than 200 people has charged caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three government ministers with negligence. H...

To fend off boredom during the latest lockdown, the Sea Life London Aquarium has been showing its gentoo penguins Christmas movies. Host Marco Werman speaks to senior curator James Robson.

US cybersecurity firm FireEye said this week that it was the victim of a cyber attack by a foreign state. An investigation is ongoing, but fingers are pointing to Russia. Host Marco Werman speaks with Richard Bejtlich, who previously served as the chief security strategist at FireEye.

In recent months, Spain’s Canary Islands have seen a sharp uptick in migrant arrivals from West Africa. This year, more than 20,000 have arrived in the Canary Islands. That's ten times more than last year. It is not the first time the Canary Islands have been a destination for migrants — and many activists say Spain should've been better prepared. Lucia Benavides reports from Spain.

It's been more than 10 years since Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow detention center. Magnitsky was imprisoned after accusing Russian government officials of corruption and theft. Since his death, American-born financier Bill Browder has advocated for sanctions against corrupt or criminal government officials in Russian and beyond. The US, Canada and UK, among other countries, have...

After more than a month of fighting, Ethiopia's prime minister has said the conflict in Tigray is mostly over. Now is the time to rebuild, he says. But with communications mostly blocked and access to Tigray tightly restricted, the United Nations is warning the situation is spiraling out of control. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

Secularist candidates in Lebanon's university elections scored an overwhelming victory recently. The results are a significant departure from previous results where Lebanon's sectarian parties have typically won outright. Now secular politicians hope to make political and economic change both at the university and national levels. The World's Marco Werman spoke to psychology student and secular po...

In Tokyo, English translations are everywhere. They’re just not always accurate. Now, a group of eight women has formed the Association for the Betterment of Public English in Japan to help foreigners looking for accurate information across the country. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Saturday marks the five-year anniversary of the landmark Paris climate accord. The global process to cut greenhouse gas emissions has been relatively effective in getting countries to promise to cut carbon emissions.  According to new data released Wednesday from the United Nations, the target of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius is within reach, largely due to a slew of new 2050 net-zero emis...

Debate over the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines for use in Brazil is increasing a political tug of war. CoronaVac, a vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, has shown promising results. But scientists like Natalia Pasternak, a research fellow at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biomedical Sciences, says Brazil’s president is attempting to block use of the vaccine s...

Host Marco Werman marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon's killing with a song from the final album he and his wife Yoko Ono released, "Double Fantasy." The song is called “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy).” 

Throughout this year, we followed young Latino voters’ journeys to the polls as part of our “Every 30 Seconds” project. Approximately every 30 seconds, a Latino becomes eligible to vote. Now that the election is over, we’re hearing from some of these young people one last time. Brayan Guevara is a 20-year-old Afro Latino teacher and college student. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and has...