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Violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan is now heading into its third week despite multiple attempts at a ceasefire. Both sides are accusing each other of reigniting the violence. The conflict is all about an enclave of land called Nagorno-Karabakh. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan lay claim to the territory. The conflict has ripple effects across the globe — especially amongst the Armenian and Azerbai...

French officials are investigating 51 Islamic associations, three days after a suspected extremist beheaded a French history teacher last week. The teacher was apparently targeted after he showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a discussion on free speech. Sylvie Kauffmann, an editor at Le Monde, and Yasser Louati, a French human rights activist, speak with The World’s host Marco...

London composer Cosmo Sheldrake is not the first person to be inspired by birdsong. There's Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi. Sheldrake's new album is called “Wake Up Calls.” He recently sat down with our friends at The Intelligence podcast, brought to us from Economist Radio. Jason Palmer is the program's host.

Many white-collar employees at tech giants continue to work from home. But that is not the case for many of the service workers who support these companies — including janitors, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and security guards, most of whom are immigrants or people of color. KQED’s Sam Harnett reports on the challenges they face.

Alexandra Wilson, a criminal and family lawyer in London, says she's known about the gender, racial and class inequalities "since day one" of her career. She made headlines last month when she spoke out for being mistaken as a defendant in court three times in one day. Wilson talks to The World's Marco Werman about injustices that exist within the legal system and what the government must do to ta...

Schools across Kenya reopened this week after being closed for more than half a year due to the coronavirus. The last-minute reopening is a pleasant surprise for many teachers and students. But it also has everyone scrambling to adjust to a school year they thought was over. The World's Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi.

Mexico’s former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, was detained by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents at Los Angeles Airport on Thursday night in connection with drug-related corruption. This is the first high-ranking military official from Mexico taken into US custody. Zepeda will face drug and money laundering charges, according to news reports. From Mexico City, The Worl...

In our Friday reporters' roundtable, immigration editor Monica Campbell and Europe correspondent Orla Barry join host Marco Werman to discuss developments in immigration policies in the US and Europe in the buildup to the Nov. 3 US election.

New Zealanders head to the polls on Saturday. Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party is in a comfortable double-digit lead over the more conservative National Party. The Labour Party is largely riding a wave of  popularity over Ardern’s successful handling of the pandemic and praise following the Christchurch terrorist attack. New Zealanders will also decide on two landmark social issues: whether to legali...

The idea behind an effective vaccine is that it can protect communities from outbreaks of an infectious disease — if enough people get it. Recently, a group of scientists proposed a completely opposite approach to the pandemic that they hope might have the same effect down the road. The untested idea, natural herd immunity, is to just let the virus spread in the general population. As communities...

In a town hall last night, President Donald Trump denied familiarity with QAnon, the cult theory that has cast him in a central role in the battle against an international conspiracy. Host Marco Werman speaks with Anna-Sophie Harling, managing director for Newsguard in Europe, about QAnon, the Trump lore, and how it is taking hold in countries well beyond the US.

Germany will be paying an additional $600 million to Holocaust survivors in part to ease their struggles during the coronavirus pandemic. The World Sarah Birnbaum has more.

News that Johnson & Johnson has paused its COVID-19 vaccine trials comes a month after British regulators put on hold the trial of a vaccine by AstraZeneca. Vaccine developers say these temporary halts show that the trials are being done properly, that it goes with the territory. The vaccine-skeptic public might view it differently. Marco Werman speaks with Polly Roy, chair of virology at the...

On Thursday, Norway's Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said that Russia hacked into their country's parliamentary email system. Norway says the attack happened back in August but they did not disclose any evidence confirming the attack. Russia has rejected Norway’s accusation calling it a “provocation.” Host Marco Werman speaks with reporter Charles Maynes, who joins him from Moscow.

Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza will not face jail time, but is ordered to pay a fine for attempting to steal an African artifact he said was looted by a Paris museum. Host Marco Werman speaks with Diyabanza's lawyer, Hakim Chergui.

As Nov. 3 approaches, calls by President Donald Trump to declare a winner on Election Day have raised fears among the biggest, oldest group of mail-in voters: members of the military.  A new nonpartisan group of retired US generals and veterans has come forward to say that could disenfranchise the 172,000 active-duty service members abroad and their families. As The World's Rupa Shenoy reports, th...

In the two weeks since parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, the country's whole political infrastructure has gone into a whirlwind. Protests stormed the parliament building, election results were annulled, the capital Bishkek went into a state of emergency and on Thursday, the country's President Sooronbay Jeenbekov stepped down, saying, “I do not want to go down in Kyrgyzstan’s history as a pre...

This week, seven countries joined the United States in signing the "Artemis Accords," an agreement laying out standards transparency and cooperation in space exploration. But not everyone is on board. Host Marco Werman has the story.

When it comes to climate change, the Arctic is changing faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. To adapt to an uncertain future, people have started to use a phone app called SIKU, which allows them to monitor real-time and long-term changes to sea ice and various animal species important to Inuit diet and culture. On the World's Big Fix, environment reporter Anna Kusmer reports.

A Supreme Court ruling halting the gathering of census data has many civic groups worried about the long-term impact of an undercount. Lizette Escobedo, director of the National Census Program at NALEO, a nonprofit group working to civically engage Latinos talks with The World’s Marco Werman.

France will impose a nightly curfew starting on Saturday on almost 20 million of the country's 67 million people in an attempt to curb a resurgent coronavirus. Like other European leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron is hoping to avoid blanket nationwide lockdowns at all costs. But is that the right course of action? Host Marco Werman speaks with a veteran French epidemiologist, Catherine Hil...

Two Americans and the remains of a third were released by Yemen's Houthi government on Wednesday. Host Marco Werman speaks with Stephen Seche, former US ambassador to Yemen, about the diplomacy that goes into a prisoner swap in Yemen.

The global LGBTQ community is fighting for a range of rights and protections. Activists in the US say the country’s last four years have seen some advancements, but other devastating setbacks. They now warn that the US is falling behind international discourse. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.

As musicians turn to livestreaming performances amid the pandemic, 12-year-old piano phenom Matthew Chang performed two pieces by Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin on Wednesday at the Polish Embassy in Washington, DC. The organizers held the concert in an effort to pull people together — at least for a while online — to counter the global crisis.

Music teachers in Canada are being forced to improvise. Choir classes, for example, either must meet outdoors to rehearse or they simply hum and chant their way through class. Host Marco Werman speaks with Toronto-based Anita Elash about how music teachers are managing to keep music programs alive during the pandemic.