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In Israel, schools opened back up at the end of the academic year. But things did not go well: dozens of Israeli schools saw outbreaks of the coronavirus. So what are schools  — and families — in Israel doing to plan for the fall semester? Judah Kauffman reports from Jerusalem.

The UK government introduced new quarantine laws on travelers coming back from Spain on Saturday, catching up to 600,000 holidaymakers by surprise. The new rules came into place after a spike in cases of COVID-19 in Catalonia and Aragon. But tourists on the popular Balearic and Canary islands, where the infection rates are low, are also affected. British tourist Stefan Hughes joins host Marco Werm...

Thirty years ago this week, former President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, barring discrimination against people with disabilities. South Korea took much longer to pass similar legislation, and advocates are pushing the country to do more. As Jason Strothers reports from Seoul, one advocate has set her sights especially high.

Closed consulates in Houston, Texas, and Chengdu, China, are just the latest in a series of escalating tensions between the US and China. The World's Marco Werman speaks to China foreign policy expert Jessica Chen Weiss from Cornell University about where the relationship is headed.

South Africa had in place some of the world’s strictest coronavirus lockdown measures. But now, COVID-19 cases are accelerating, and the country poses a threat to the entire African continent. So what went wrong? Host Marco Werman speaks with Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Just a few weeks ago, Puerto Rican officials were encouraging more tourism from the US mainland. Now COVID-19 cases on the island have spiked, and the governor has had to roll back reopening efforts. Dr. Andrés Juliá Beltrán is an epidemiologist working to contain the spread of the virus in the city of Yauco. He tells The World's Marco Werman that Puerto Ricans returning home from Florida and Texa...

Approximately 32 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in this year’s US election in November. Close to 4 million of those eligible voters are of Puerto Rican descent — and that number continues to grow.  After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans relocated to the US, the majority settling in states such as Pennsylvania and Florida. But many Puerto Ricans don't necessarily think their vote matte...

Protests in the Khabarovsk region in Russia's far east are now in their third week. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets, showing unprecedented resistance to the Kremlin. The protests started earlier this month with the arrest of the Khabarovsk regional governor Sergei Furgal. He was charged with murder and attempted murder, but most analysts and protesters believe these are trump...

Bolivia’s government has postponed its presidential elections three times this year. Just last week, the country’s highest electoral authority pushed back the vote, citing concerns over the coronavirus. This is all happening against a backdrop of a growing political and now public health crisis. The World’s Jorge Valencia has the story of one Bolivian mayor who has become a symbol of a divided cou...

Do you know where to go to get tested for COVID-19? Did you hear about it in a public health message, or did you Google it? Do you even know what test to ask for? In the US, it's largely been up to individuals to figure out how to get tested. The situation is very different in other countries. Host Marco Werman compares the US approach with that of other nations along with Rajiv Shah, former head...

Baseball fans are celebrating the return of Major League Baseball, albeit for a shortened 60 game season amidst the global pandemic. But with the US-Canadian border closed, the Toronto Blue Jays are left starting the 2020 season with big questions about where they’ll play their home games after the Canadian government said the team would not be allowed to play in Canada. The World's Steven Davy re...

Last year, Victoria Band made her son, who uses a hearing aid, a doll that also uses a hearing aid. She posted about the doll on her Facebook page, and before long, people around the world were messaging her asking if she could make a doll for their child. Now, Band makes dolls for children with scars, hearing aids, cleft lips, and more. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Turkey's decision to reconvert the Haghia Sophia, originally built as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, into a mosque is having religious and political reverberations around the world. Host Marco Werman talks with Elizabeth Prodromou, director of Tufts University’s Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School.

On Thursday, an Iranian passenger plane flying over southwestern Syria apparently had to swerve and drop when a US fighter plane flew close to the airliner. Several civilian passengers on board were injured. The incident could further inflame tensions between the US and Iran. Host Marco Werman speaks Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian American analyst and host of The Iran Podcast.

A new Netflix reality show follows an Indian matchmaker who flies around the world meeting clients and their families, then setting them up. It's meant to be lighthearted and fun. But critics fault the matchmaker's focus on fair skin tones, and the show’s lack of discussion about caste. The World's Rupa Shenoy reports.

Regina lp is one of the guests on this week's podcast The Economist Asks episode. The pro-Beijing leader was quite forceful in her discussion with host Anne McElvoy. We hear a bit of that exchange.

In the latest tit-for-tat, Beijing ordered the closure of the American consulate in Chengdu. It was retaliation for the Trump administration closing the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week. The World's Shanghai correspondent Rebecca Kanthor has the latest.

Uber drivers in Europe are taking legal action and demanding that the ride-sharing company reveal precisely what data it collects on drivers and how it's being used. They also want more transparency on how the company's sophisticated algorithms use data and information to make decisions that impact drivers. The World's Lydia Emmanouilidou reports.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced the expansion of a program called Operation Legend. The program aims to beef up law enforcement across multiple major US cities by investing millions of dollars in funding to quell violent crime. It will also send in federal law enforcement agents. One of the cities included in Operation Legend is Kansas City, Missouri. Host Marco Werman speaks with...

Born into a family of Scottish vaudevillians, Annie Ross died this week at the age of 89. She was the Ross in the jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Ross is perhaps best known for her composition "Twisted," later made famous again by Joni Mitchell. But as we hear from The World's Marco Werman, the line "they said as a child I appeared a little bit wild" is somewhat autobiographical.

Life has been quiet lately. More hectic at home for some of us, but outside, there's been less traffic, fewer planes flying overhead. New research published in the journal Science shows that the coronavirus lockdowns have also led to a quieting of seismic noise below ground as well. The World’s Carolyn Beeler reports.

This month marks the four-year anniversary of a failed coup in Turkey. Since then, the government has jailed tens of thousands of people, and continues to hunt down thousands more. Many escaped to Europe, but it turns out they aren’t necessarily safe. 

Russian intelligence has been trying to influence US elections for generations. How the Russians did it in 2016 and how they may impact the 2020 election is the subject of a new book called "Rigged."  Host Marco Werman talks with author David Shimer.

Since 2002, a treaty between the two countries allows Canada to turn back asylum-seekers who come to its border checkpoints and hand them to US officials, where they face detention. But a Canadian judge ruled on Tuesday that the treaty is unconstitutional and that Canada cannot turn a "blind eye" to asylum-seekers. Reporter Emma Jacobs explains the judge's decision and why human rights groups have...

Christiana Figueres' specialty is optimism. She is a former diplomat and longtime climate change leader who presided over the 2015 Paris Agreement at the head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This week on The World's weekly look at climate change solutions, host Carol Hills speaks to Figueres about why optimism is so important. Then, we share the third poem in our series highlight...