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Dr. Céline Gounder, an HIV & infectious disease specialist, was named to President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 task force this week. Gounder speaks to host Marco Werman about the force's priorities.

Climate change was a top issue of Biden's presidential campaign and there's reason to believe that it will be a central part of the Biden administration's foreign policy focus. As part of The World's weekly look at climate solutions, The Big Fix, host Marco Werman speaks to environment producer Anna Kusmer about foreign policy as a climate solution, and Thom Woodroofe, from the Asia Society Policy...

For many decades, the US has presented itself to the rest of the world as the gold standard when it comes to free and fair voting. When there’s an election in Africa or Asia, for example, American diplomats often weigh in with proclamations on credibility. So how do you square that with a US president now refusing to concede? The World’s Patrick Winn talks to Marty Natalegawa, the former foreign m...

The twisted narrative of an illegitimate US presidential election is ricocheting across the globe. The University of North Carolina’s Zeynep Tufekci talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how allegations of voter fraud in the US are bolstering populists and autocrats around the world.

Host Marco Werman remembers Colombian percussionist Willie Salcedo, a recent victim of COVID-19.

Medical dramas are a dime a dozen on TV. A new Canadian series that started airing on NBC this fall offers a fresh take on the familiar genre. “Transplant” follows a Syrian refugee and doctor who resettles in Canada. 

Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century English writer and philosopher often dubbed the "mother of feminism," received a new tribute, a statue in a London park meant to honor her life and work. But soon after the statue was unveiled, it got hit with some sharp backlash. Host Marco Werman talks with Bee Rowlatt, who has led the campaign to get a sculpture celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft in Newington...

Some expect the newly elected administration, with its first vice president of Indian descent, to speak out about troubling human rights abuses in India. But, as The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi among Indian Americans, and the US's need for India's support against China, may mean the new administration remains diplomatically officially silent on Indi...

China has four COVID-19 vaccines in phase 3 trials, but with so few COVID-19 cases in the country, it is holding trials in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Brazil. The World's Rebecca Kanthor tells The World’s host Marco Werman about Chinese progress in vaccine development and she speaks with a hospital nurse who has just received her second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

In a year of so much loss and uncertainty, the Puerto Rican band ÌFÉ turned to songs that honor the deceased in their forthcoming album. We close today's program with the song “Music for Egun Movement 2.”

A little over a month ago, Italy was seen as a role model in Europe — a country that had learned its lesson from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Once the epicenter of Europe's outbreak, Italy managed to bring its infection rate down to one of the lowest in the European Union. Then in October, cases there started to soar. The prime minister has introduced regional lockdowns across Italy...

There’s been outrage in Italy over the discovery of a fetus cemetery, where crosses were placed beside the names of the women who had abortions. Lawyers and human rights groups have launched an investigation citing privacy concerns. The situation has renewed a conversation about the rising backlash against abortion rights in the country. Lucia Benavides reports from Europe.

A sales event created by China's Alibaba 11 years ago is now celebrated as a national holiday. Singles Day, which takes place on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, starts with a big television event. And as The World's Rebecca Kanthor tells host Marco Werman, it's followed by a 24-hour online shopping spree.

Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators resigned en masse on Wednesday just hours after the Beijing-dominated Hong Kong government disqualified four of its members for being “unpatriotic.” It is the latest crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong by the mainland government. Marco Werman speaks with Wu Chi-wai, one of the pro-democracy legislators who resigned. He is the chairman of the Democratic Party in...

A group of international election observers at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said the US election ran smoothly and criticized President Donald Trump for promoting baseless allegations of fraud. Host Marco Werman speaks to OSCE's Katya Andrusz spokesperson in Warsaw.

President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to get back into the nuclear deal with Iran. That won’t be easy. But former US Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the key US negotiator of the nuclear pact, tells The World’s Marco Werman that Biden and his top advisors are assembling a competent team of experienced negotiators to return to the table.

A constitutional amendment sent to Hungary’s parliament Tuesday would effectively ban adoption for same-sex couples. And while the streets of Budapest are quiet due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the country’s LGBTQ community is organizing online. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

At least three people were wounded in an explosion at an international ceremony commemorating the end of World War I that was organized by France at a non-Muslim cemetery in the city of Jeddah. The attack comes amid heightened religious tensions in France that seems to have spread to the Middle East. Host Marco Werman speaks with Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for...

In a move by the Greek government that is virtually unprecedented, an Afghan father was arrested and faces charges of child endangerment after his son drowned. They were aboard a dinghy carrying 25 migrants that capsized in the Aegean Sea off the island of Samos. Host Marco Werman speaks with the father's lawyer, Dimitris Choulis, in Samos.

Saeb Erekat, a veteran Palestinian peace negotiator and spokesman for the Palestinian cause, died on Tuesday after contracting COVID-19. The 65-year-old was involved in nearly every round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians since the 1990s. Even as negotiations stagnated over the years, Erikat consistently advocated for the two-state solution, which he said was his destiny in...

Monday night, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that he had signed a Russian-brokered settlement to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. This deal came after six weeks of fighting in the region, and as the deal stands, Azerbaijan comes out of this conflict with territorial gains. Armenians in Yerevan, furious with the deal, stormed government buildings and protested in the streets. Hos...

Omar Alshogre was a teen when the Syrian security forces arrested him for participating in demonstrations. He was taken to prison where he endured months of torture. Eventually, he was released and he left the country for Turkey and then Europe. Last week, Alshogre found out he had been accepted to Georgetown University. The World's Shirin Jaafari brings us his story.

Off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, there are wolves that live along the shoreline and survive by swimming and roaming the beaches foraging for seafood. Recently, wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen and his organization SeaLegacy teamed up with a local conservation group to raise half a million dollars to buy out the hunting licenses for the wolves, to protect them. Nicklen joins host Marco...

News about the Olympics has mostly focused on whether the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be rescheduled in 2021 or be canceled again due to the pandemic. But an increasing number of people around the world are now looking further into the future. They're talking about a possible boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to allegations of human rights abuses across China. The World’s B...

Protesters were marching in the Peruvian capital of Lima on Tuesday as the country swore in President Manuel Merino following the removal of former President Martín Vizcarra over unproven corruption allegations. The World’s Jorge Valencia has more.