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The long-running rebel group, M23, says it has taken the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma is on the border with Rwanda, and Rwandan troops have been spotted in the city, working in tandem with the rebels. Sonia Rolley is a Reuters reporter covering the conflict closely. She tells Host Marco Werman what's happening on the ground and explains the significance of this moment.

Canada is getting ready to be hit with new tariffs by the US following the start of President Donald Trump's administration this week. It comes as Trump has repeatedly made calls for Canada to join the US. Host Carol Hills speaks with Mark Rendell, an economics reporter with the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper, about the potential impacts of tariffs on Canada and what it could mean for global tr...

Passengers on city buses in Tbilisi, Georgia, got a surprise Friday morning when fare collection boxes began blasting pro-Western political messages. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have the story of a suspected cyberattack and the montage of speeches and music that riders heard.

There are now more than 40,000 foreign nationals serving in the US military. Those who don’t become American citizens are just one mistake away from being deported. It happens more often than most people realize. Gustavo Solis reports from KPBS in San Diego.

The Nobel Academy guards its deliberations over prize winners for 50 years, and events in 1974 help explain why. That year, the two winners of the Nobel for literature were members of the Literature Committee itself. The committee was accused of nepotism, its reputation tarnished. The controversy also led to tragedy. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

Osama Najim, also known as Almasri, is a Libyan prison boss wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. He was apprehended in Italy by police, then released shortly after. The episode underscores the challenges for the ICC when countries who signed the statute that gave birth to the court don't fulfill their treaty obligations. Beth Van Schaack, the former United States ambassador a...

It was once a thriving coal mining town with a population of over 100,000 people. But today, Yubari, located in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, is a ghost of its former self — with fewer than 8,000 residents, most of whom are over the age of 65. Rebecca Rosman takes us to Yubari to explore how the city has become a microcosm for the challenges facing Japan.

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked from two Russian oil tankers after they were caught in a Black Sea storm last month. Host Carolyn Beeler spoke to Margaret Williams, a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International...

This year's Australian Open has had highs and lows, from Wii-like animations to veteran players forfeiting matches. The World's Bianca Hillier has the details before this weekend's finals.

A genre of music from the 1970s from the Philippines was able to turn into a movement of self-identity and Filipino cultural pride. Today, the next generation of fans of this genre, as well as one man who pioneered it, are finding new ways to reach Filipinos worldwide, reports Julio Canimo.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has offered displaced people in Gaza an opportunity to return to their neighborhoods. This week, The World’s Shirin Jaafari followed three families as they made the journey back. What they found was a scene of total devastation.

For a long time, Venezuela was one of the most-dangerous countries in the world. In recent years, safety has slightly improved, in part because the population is too poor to steal from. But crime still exists, and that's leading some to cult worship. Instead of seeing themselves as created in the image of a good and just God, a growing group of Venezuelans and other Latin Americans are worshipping...

The Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning. The big news is the 13 nominations for "Emilia Perez,"  a French musical that explores trans identity, in Spanish, set mostly in Mexico. There were global nods in other categories and Carolyn Beeler explores them with Lisa Nesselson, a film critic in Paris.

This week, bereaved families in Turkey buried the victims of a fire at a ski resort in the mountainous Bolu province. Survivors spoke out about a lack of basic fire safety at the Grand Kartal Hotel as anger spilled over on social media. The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports from Istanbul.

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling network of trains, subways and buses, often considered the best in the world. The World's transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports on what other countries can learn from Japan's unique system.

An unusually strong winter storm pushed a commercial flight heading to London to near record speeds on Thursday. The British Airways plane hit 814 miles per hour, just shy of the subsonic record of 835 miles per hour, and arrived roughly an hour ahead of schedule. The storm is set to hit the UK on Friday. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have more.

Syria's economy under the previous government was tightly managed by former President Bashar al-Assad, his family, and close associates. But now, Syria's new government is looking to introduce economic reform to further liberalize Syria's economy, which remains heavily sanctioned by the US and Europe. Host Marco Werman speaks with Karam Shaar, a Syrian economist, to understand how that can be achi...

President Donald Trump has paused the refugee admissions program, the federal entity that aids those fleeing persecution and war. It will shut down on Monday for at least 90 days. Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, head of Global Refuge, one of the 10 US resettlement agencies, explains the repercussions to The World’s Carolyn Beeler.

There are some media commentators who are concerned that US democracy, and the media that monitors it, are going the way of Hungary. There, democracy was not overthrown by tanks in the streets, mass arrests or paramilitary violence. The country’s leader, Viktor Orbán, stacked the courts with loyalists, aggressively opposed migrants and LGBTQ+ rights and redrew electoral boundaries. Media outlets w...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 countries, some 14,200 miles on foot from the Middle Eastern shores of the Red Sea to the Pacific rim of Japan. Host Marco Werman speaks with Salopek as he begins the 13th year of his global trek.

When thinking about World War I, Americans tend to think of the Western Front where the allies fought Germans between 1914 and 1918. But this neglects other stories, like the stories of the Black, South African battalions who were barred by a racist government from using weapons — and instead served in the British army behind the lines. A new memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, is dedicated to th...

Donald Trump has said, on more than one occasion, that he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. More than a day into his presidency, the war in Ukraine rages on. But “ending wars” does still appear to be a top priority for the new administration. The World's Daniel Ofman reports on what Trump's Cabinet members have said about the war in Ukraine, and what their statements s...

North Korea is waging its own culture war, stepping up a crack down on bourgeois fashion: sunglasses, frilly wedding dresses, even unauthorized haircuts. But more vexing, to the regime, is speech: controlling not only what people say. But how they say it. The World’s Patrick Winn reports on North Korea’s fresh attacks on what it calls the “language of puppets.”

The first Chinese settlers only showed up in Taiwan 400 years ago, just a few years after the Mayflower landed in Plymouth Rock. Before that, Taiwan was home to the Austronesian  peoples. Some of these peoples would sail far away — settling places like Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and Hawaii. Others stayed until today — making up 16 officially recognized Indigenous groups in Taiwan. Some of them, s...

The West Bank continues to see increasing violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. The West Bank village of Al-Funduq is one of the sites of this uptick in violence. Host Marco Werman speaks with Hugh Lovatt, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about the status of the West Bank and what's behind the recent violence across the West Bank.