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The UN says 630 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the start of the ceasefire deal over the weekend. This comes as thousands of Palestinians return to their homes across the Gaza Strip. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Amande Bazerolle, a coordinater with Doctors Without Borders in Gaza, about the needs on the ground and what's happened since the ceasefire went into effect.

Over the past few weeks, Greenland has been in the spotlight as Donald Trump renewed his interest in taking possession of the world’s largest island. But this comes at a time when Greenland’s Prime Minister Muté B. Egede is discussing independence from Denmark. The World's Carolyn Beeler spoke to Maaliaaraq Engell. She grew up in Greenland and is a member of its Indigenous Inuit community. Now, sh...

"Remigration" has become a buzzword among far-right lawmakers in Germany and Austria recently. The term is widely understood to mean the mass deportation of people from a migrant background. Just a year ago, the word was considered taboo in Germany even among far-right politicians there. But a lot has changed since then, as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Using AI technology to produce child sexual abuse material is a growing problem around the globe. It poses policy issues at the local, state and national level to prevent it at the point of content creation and how to prosecute it in the courtroom. Carol Hills speaks to Dan Sexton of the Internet Watch Foundation about the breadth of the problem and what's being done to combat it. 

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills catch you up on headlines in the news you may have missed.

Hockey is Canada's most-popular sport. This year, broadcasters are making professional games more accessible than ever before by producing shows with commentators speaking Cree and Inuktitut, two Indigenous languages. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

With much of Syria now under the control of rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, a new battlefield is emerging in the country’s northeast, as Turkish airstrikes target Kurdish-led militias. Turkey says the militias are an extension of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, which has waged an insurgency in Turkey for the past 40 years. But some within the Turkish government suggest that now may be the time to...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were victims not only to American artillery bombing, but also from the very people meant to be protecting them  — Japanese forces. But that history, of the role the Japanese military played in Okinawan sufferin...

One of the founding members of the pioneering Afro rock band, Osibisa, Teddy Osei has died at age 88. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler explore the monumental career of this Ghanaian-born multi-instrumentalist whose music is credited with bringing African rhythms and harmonies to Western pop music, beginning in the 1970s.

Israel's Cabinet has approved the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal. This followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confirmation that a deal had been signed with Hamas to pause the 15-month conflict. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Israeli journalist, Noga Tarnopolski, about what this means politically for Netanyahu.

Romesh Ranganathan took a circuitous route to comedy. The son of Sri Lankan immigrants in the UK, he taught high school math for about a decade before abandoning it for a full-time career in entertainment. He does standup, radio shows, podcasts and TV specials. As he started the North American leg of his current Hustle tour, Ranganathan stopped in at The World's studio in Boston for a conversation...

Twenty-one-year-old Palestinian computer engineering student from Gaza, Shaimaa Ahmed, says she’s hopeful, but at the same time very scared, that a ceasefire deal recently negotiated between Hamas and Israel won’t stick. Ahmed lives in the central city of Deir al-Balah. She tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that she’s still deeply worried that she’ll wake up to find the people she loves are go...

This month, Indonesia rolled out a new free meal program for school children, a massive undertaking for the world’s fourth most populous country. The initiative has the potential to reduce stunting and poverty in the country, improve educational outcomes and increase incomes of farmers. Leila Goldstein reports on how the program is going so far.

Global shipping is a huge business — and a relatively huge contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. But the International Maritime Organization aims to change that by cutting its emission to zero by 2050. To this end, individual ports are changing the way they do business and new ships are using different types of fuel. David Kattenburg reports.

One place where many try to build new lives is Agadir, a city along Morocco’s Atlantic Coast. It isn’t perfect but there is work there, and a sense of welcoming, as Morocco tries to integrate migrants. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Agadir.

Mozambique has a new president, but Daniel Chapo represents nothing new for the country. His party Frelimo has controlled the government since independence from Portugal 50 years ago. But as months of protests have demonstrated, people in Mozambique are not satisfied with the status quo. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Armando Nhantumbo, a journalist with Savana News, a Mozambican news...

In his farewell address, President Joe Biden warned that an oligarchy is taking shape in the US. Katie Drummond, the global editorial director for Wired magazine, talks about how their latest issue scrutinizes how this is true abroad.

Thailand has close to a million stray cats and dogs. That's no surprise to anyone who's walked a couple blocks in Bangkok. There’s often a four-legged creature underfoot, most of them friendly, some potentially dangerous. Loose cats and dogs are often well fed by locals — offering food is seen as "merit making" by many Buddhists — but city officials are enacting new laws to reduce the stray popula...

There's been a mixed reaction to the ceasefire and hostage deal in Israel. Different parties and movements are reacting with joy or anger in response to the deal which will see Israeli hostages released in a first phase of the deal. But hostage support groups are so far elated at the news that the hostages will come home. Host Marco Werman speaks with Amir Blumenfeld, a doctor and health member of...

As the implementation approaches of a law that would ban TikTok in the United States, many American TikTok users are downloading RedNote, a video-sharing app written mostly in Mandarin, as an act of protest. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler examine the user migration to Chinese-owned RedNote that openly dismisses concerns about TikTok’s ties to Beijing.

After defying government investigators for weeks, Yoon Suk Yeol became South Korea's first sitting president to be placed under arrest. Around 1,000 security officers moved in on the president's official residence in the early hours of Wednesday. Yoon is being investigated on charges of insurrection, after declaring martial law in early December. He essentially gave himself up today, saying that h...

South African authorities sought to end illegal gold mining in a derelict gold mine in Stilfontein. Their strategy was to cut off the supplies that were being sent down to the miners to keep them alive. Now, in one mining complex below, it's clear a large number of the miners have died. Kimon de Greef is a South African reporter who's followed the standoff between the miners and the police at Stil...

After months of back and forth, Hamas and Israel appear to have reached a ceasefire deal. The agreement, which was mediated by Egypt, the US and Qatar, will be carried out in three phases. The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with Host Marco Werman about the latest.

US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about what he’s accomplished as top US Envoy in Beijing, and the fraught relations between the two superpowers as President-elect Donald Trump takes the helm.

In 2024, there were 692 packed, wooden boats that reached the Atlantic Archipelago off the west coast of mainland Europe, carrying in total more than 47,000 people. Most came to the tiny, western-most island of El Hierro where emergency services struggle to help the new arrivals. But as The World’s Gerry Hadden reports, most islanders receive the migrants warmly.