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In France, it means using a term plucked from colonialism and revived by the far-right. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explains how the word “ensauvagement” has returned to French mainstream politics.

The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Sheikh Sabah, who was dubbed as the “dean of Arab diplomacy,” was considered a staunch ally to the US and has steered the Gulf state’s foreign policy for more than 50 years. Host Marco Werman speaks with Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, about the late emir...

At the time of Jamal Khashoggi's murder in 2018, the writer and journalist was in the process of creating a foundation to promote democracy in the Middle East. On Tuesday, it was launched. Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) will focus on countries that are close allies of the United States, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and will call attention to Washington policies that work against democrati...

Throughout this election year, we are bringing you the stories of first-time Latino voters through our series, “Every 30 Seconds.” On Tuesday, WABE reporter Martha Dalton brings us up to date with a young Latina she has been following this past year — and hears how the Black Lives Matter movement is shaping her politics.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump both have strong opinions about China. And people in China have strong opinions about them. Many Chinese will be following the first presidential debate. As Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai, they're watching for clues about the future of US-China relations.

British filmmaker Sir David Attenborough recently gave a special gift to the young future king, Prince George. Attenborough gave the prince a shark tooth fossil that the naturalist had found decades ago on a vacation to the island of Malta. But the issue has become contentious as a member of the Maltese government has said that the nation wants the shark tooth back. 

The US is threatening to close its embassy in Baghdad in response to attacks by Iran-supported Shia militias in Iraq on US military and diplomatic targets. Host Marco Werman speaks to Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, the former ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations and the founding director of the Indiana University Center for the Study of the Middle East.

Sweden and Denmark are only a few miles apart. But the two countries have taken very different approaches to COVID-19. Some Danes are now thinking that perhaps their Nordic brothers and sisters were right in not shutting down their economy so tightly, as Tom Carstensen reports.

Going to university this autumn was never going to be straightforward. But in Manchester, England, over 1,700 college students have found themselves locked into their residence halls because of an outbreak of the coronavirus. It's one of 40 universities in Britain reporting cases of the coronavirus just a couple of weeks after colleges reopened. The World's Orla Barry joins host Marco Werman from...

It’s been hard to keep up with the devastating human toll of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we passed yet another grim milestone — 1 million deaths worldwide. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how we got here.

Two years ago, scientists were shocked to find a large, watery lake beneath the Red Planet’s icy south pole. Now, the same scientists are getting a clearer picture, and have discovered not just a single lake, but a network of salty water bodies just under the surface of the planet. From her office in Rome, Italy, Roma Tre University researcher Elena Pettinelli speaks to The World’s Marco Werman ab...

Universities around the world are undergoing their own reckonings regarding racism and elitism of campus. A new documentary, Somalinimo, explores life at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The film follows four students as they navigate the prestigious halls as Black Muslim women. Awa Farah's story is one of four told in the documentary. She also serves as the film’s writer and the...

Southeast Asian nations are getting a big boost from China. Across the region, Chinese state-run companies are investing in lots of infrastructure projects – ports, train lines, and real estate. And in Cambodia, Chinese investment has helped create tens of thousands of jobs and strengthen the economy. But opening the door to investment from China also comes with risks. Mary Kay Magistad has this s...

Lebanon has fallen on desperate times. The economy has been reeling for months and is in a tailspin; coronavirus cases are spiking; politicians can’t agree on how to form a new government; and the capital, Beirut, is still dealing with the aftermath of its deadly port explosion early last month. All of this instability has led more and more Lebanese to risk their lives to leave the country. Rebecc...

This weekend saw renewed fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Dozens of soldiers and civilians have been killed. Azerbaijan’s government has moved to block most internet use.  As Durrie Bouscaren reports, it’s an increasing tactic for governments in the former Soviet bloc, and a sign of things to come. 

A long-simmering conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh flared up on Sunday after both sides fired rockets and artillery, leading to the deaths of at least 30 people in clashes that continued on Monday. It was not immediately clear what sparked the fighting. The latest violence in the conflict, which has run hot and cold since a 1994 ceasefire, has led...

The US president owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a foreign bank. He regularly pays taxes to several foreign governments. His assets can be seized if he doesn’t repay his debts. That’s all according to new reporting from The New York Times, which obtained years’ worth of President Trump’s tax returns. The World's Marco Werman talks with Susan Hennessey, editor of the blog Lawfare and a form...

Nadir Godrej, whose company makes vegetable oil and soap, called for solutions to the climate crisis in a series of 98 rhyming couplets during a video conference at Climate Week NYC. Host Marco Werman tells the story.

Britain’s Royal Festival Hall reopens with a new season inspired by this past summer’s Black Lives Matters protests. Music from composers of color will be featured. But can that tackle classical music's long-standing diversity problem? The World's Orla Barry reports from London.

Switzerland will hold a referendum on Sunday to determine whether to spend over $6 billion on a new fleet of fighter jets. Supporters of the plan say it’s time to modernize the Swiss air defense, while opponents ask who the jets will be used against, as the country hasn’t fought in a war in over 200 years. Host Marco Werman speaks with Thomas Bruchez, political secretary for the Group for a Switze...

The World's Patrick Winn reports on Chinese infrastructure development in Laos, which has put the Southeast Asian country's electric grid under Chinese control.

Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, will be different in Israel this year. As COVID-19 cases continue to spike, the Israeli government imposed further restrictions on its people already in a nationwide lockdown. Host Marco Werman speaks with professor Yuval Shany, vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute.

Kim Jong-un told South Korea he was sorry about the killing at sea of a South Korean government official. But as Tufts professor Sung-Yoon Lee tells The World, it was not much of an apology. He says it's part of a cycle of escalation and deescalation, a strategy that North Korea has mastered.

In September 2010, Dan Savage and Terry Miller posted a video on YouTube sharing their experiences of getting bullied in high school for being gay. In the video, their advice was simple: "it gets better." The World's Bianca Hillier reports on the power of that advice reflected in the 70,000 related videos that have been posted by people around the globe in the years since.

The Ecuadorian government expressed outrage this past summer at a vast Chinese fishing armada that hovered around the Galapagos Islands, fishing for squid. The marine conservation group Oceana discovered a fleet of hundreds of Chinese fishing boats right next to the islands in July. Illegal fishing and transparency expert for Oceana, Marla Valentine, tells host Marco Werman how these boats were de...