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Pro sports have had a rough go of it during the pandemic. In Mexico though, one professional wrestling company is not giving up. As The World’s Jorge Valencia reports from Mexico City, it's organizing lucha libre bouts — at the drive-in.

China, Russia and Cuba all won seats on the UN Human Rights Council yesterday. Opposition groups and activists are against this move, citing the countries' abysmal human rights records. Host Marco Werman speaks with Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch.

Koffee is known to her family as Mikaela Simpson. She's a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter who came up with a simple tune called, "Lockdown." Host Marco Werman tells us more.

Protesters in Nigeria have forced government officials to disband a rogue security force, the "Special Anti-Robbery Squad," also known as SARS. But many demonstrators are skeptical that the move will halt police abuse. Amara Nwankpa, director of the Public Policy Initiative in Abuja, talks with host Marco Werman about the prospects for police reform in Africa’s most populous nation.

The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca is known for its high-quality handcrafts, especially when it comes to textile art. While the pandemic has hit the crafts industry hard, masks are in demand these days and artists are adapting their business models to stay afloat. Shannon Young reports from Oaxaca.

In Bangkok today, thousands of protesters lined the streets along the route of King Maha Vajiralongkorn's motorcade. It's the latest development in a wave of pro-democracy protests that have been ongoing since the summer. Host Marco Werman speaks to Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after the Taliban began an intense battle to take over the city of Lashkargah, in southern Afghanistan. The fighting comes at a time when the Trump administration is negotiating a peace agreement with the militant group to withdraw US troops. The World’s Shirin Jaafari has more.

US intelligence officials have historically been nonpartisan, at least in public. But former CIA Director John Brennan has torn up that playbook. Brennan talks with The Word’s Marco Werman about his new book and his increasingly strident criticism of the Trump administration.

“Osmanity” is a made-up word coined by Will Magid of the musical project Balkan Bump. “Osmanity” is also the name of his new album. The inspiration for the title comes from two sources: Osman 1, the first sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and the word “insanity.” As for the music? Magid talks to Marco Werman about it.

From exile, Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called for a national strike on Oct. 26 if President Alexander Lukashenko has not left office. But in Belarus, police have been given permission to use lethal force against protesters, if necessary.  Gennady Kazakevich, the first deputy of the Interior Ministry, said in a video statement: “We will not leave the streets, and law enforce...

Tensions between Orthodox communities in Israel and the national government are high as many in the minority of 1.2 million people refuse to adhere to health guidelines for social distancing. During a recent religious holiday, some ceremonies were conducted in secret to avoid police enforcement. The World's Ariel Oseran reports.

In the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, a new outbreak of the coronavirus has been reported. Twelve people have contracted the illness at a city hospital there. So, this past week, local officials announced a plan to test all 9 million residents of Qingdao. The World's Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai.

This year, we have followed young Latino voters as part of our “Every 30 Seconds” project, which is based on the fact that every 30 seconds, a young Latino person turns 18 and becomes eligible to vote. This week, we hear from Brayan Guevara, a first-time voter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He's been undecided for most of the year. WUNC reporter Naomi Prioleau checks in on his latest thoughts abou...

Armenia and Azerbaijan are now in week three of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh — a highly contested region that the countries have fought over at least since 1988. Late last week, Russia brokered a ceasefire between the two sides, but it lasted only one day, and now fighting continues. Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe specializing in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. He spoke with...

In many parts of the world, bars, restaurants and other establishments collect information about customers who walk through their doors for contact-tracing purposes. In the UK, some companies that provide the digital tools that businesses use to collect COVID-19 contact-tracing information are being accused of selling it to insurance companies, marketers and other third parties. The World's Lydia...

America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says the globe isn’t doing as well as he’d hoped in fighting the pandemic, and he worries about the politicization of public health. Fauci tells The World’s Marco Werman that President Donald Trump’s use of him in a campaign ad was “inappropriate,” but that he has “no recourse.”

Tennis star Rafael Nadal again made history on Sunday when he won his 13th French Open, beating world No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic in straight sets. Nadal's dominant performance on the red clay courts at Roland Garros in Paris also pulled the 34-year-old Spaniard into a tie for most career Grand Slams with Switzerland's Roger Federer, notching his 20th Grand Slam title.

During the 2020 presidential election, one group has been largely overlooked: African immigrants. That’s despite the fact that they are one of the fastest-growing and most diverse voter groups in the United States. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

China's massive global investment program — the  Belt and Road Initiative —  isn't just about building land and sea routes in populated regions. In 2018, China made its Arctic intentions clear when it launched the “Polar Silk Road.” Mary Kay Magistad reports in this installment of “On China's New Silk Road” from the Global Reporting Centre.

In his second TED talk, Pope Francis speaks about the urgency and moral imperative of climate change. This has been one of the pontiff's core issues since he became Pope. His talk is part of a larger Ted talk event called Countdown, which shares videos by climate leaders from around the world. One of the videos features Nigerian musician Yemi Alade performing the song, “True Love.”

Carlo Acuti, an Italian teenager who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, was beatified by the Catholic Church over the weekend. The move puts Acuti on the path to potentially become the first millennial saint. Host Marco Werman speaks to Kathleen Cummings, director of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of the new book "A Sain...

The city of Liverpool in Britain learned that it's heading into lockdown again today.  The UK is just one of a series of countries in Europe to impose new localised restrictions. France has shuttered bars in six of its main cities including Paris. A state of emergency has been announced in the Spanish capital Madrid while in Germany a curfew has been imposed on bars in Berlin for the first time in...

The coronavirus pandemic has stifled a lot of migration worldwide, but some people are on the move again, including Venezuelans. They are returning to parts of South America hoping to find better-paying work. Yet their path is more complicated as some borders and shelters remain closed, which is pushing migrants onto more precarious paths. Reporter Manuel Rueda follows some migrants along their jo...

Mexico City’s government removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from the city’s Paseo de la Reforma, a main thoroughfare, in the early hours of Saturday ahead of a planned annual protest to mark the explorer’s 1492 arrival in the Americas. Host Marco Werman gets the story from the World's Jorge Valencia in Mexico City.

Many sea turtle species are endangered, some critically so, and one big threat they face is that poachers steal their eggs off the beach before they can hatch. One conservation scientist, Kim Williams-Guillen, has developed decoy eggs fitted with GPS devices that can track poachers in the act. Host Marco Werman speaks to Williams-Guillen.