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Co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler, along with their team of reporters and producers, bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is.
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Co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler, along with their team of reporters and producers, bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is.
© PRX, Inc. All rights reserved.
Since late August, a plane has flown once a week from Louisiana, carrying Haitians — who had been living in the US under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS — across the sea to the city of Cap-Haïtien.
Former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay is the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Nine months after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces, protests are surging across Venezuela. People are taking to the streets over blackouts, low wages, political prisoners and demands for new elections.
Kibbutz Be'eri was one of the first-ever communities created in Israel, in 1946, before the state itself. It was also one of the worst-hit kibbutzim on Oct. 7, 2023. The World revisits three years later.
Malaysia recently returned 1,500 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, despite concerns for their safety, as the persecuted Muslim minority remains “stateless” in its own country.
Following this weekend’s election, Brazil will hold a runoff later this month between incumbent President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
An independent panel has found the British Premier League club Manchester City to be guilty on 114 out of 115 charges related to, among other things, widespread financial misconduct. The UAE-owned team has denied all charges and lodged an appeal.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is prompting a new debate across Western Europe about how far the conflict’s security risks could spread.
According to Israeli authorities, a plane traveling into Tel Aviv from the United Arab Emirates nearly crashed after a pilot stabbed another pilot and appeared to have tried to crash the aircraft, but the plane eventually landed safely after being diverted to Saudi Arabia.
Several thousand US troops are leaving their remaining bases in Iraq by the end of the day tomorrow. US soldiers have been stationed in the country for more than two decades.
Brazil's high-stakes presidential election is less than a week away, and a crisis is unraveling at the country’s Supreme Court, with a corruption scandal causing justices to trade insults and cancel sessions.
Forces in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region seized three airports this week, only a few days after seven armed and political groups formed an alliance against the government.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping lands in Washington today for his first state visit since 2015.
Since returning to power, the Trump administration has sent around 25,000 migrants to 28 unfamiliar countries.
Saudi Arabia weighs its options as Houthi rebels launch repeated missile and drone attacks on its cities, military sites and energy infrastructure.
Canada and the European Union want to strengthen their alliance and broader trade ties
The Kremlin’s history of election meddling is entering a new era, as artificial intelligence arms Russia with sharper, more elusive tools for interference.
In Yemen, the Houthis, a rebel group supported by Iran, have taken more strategic territory along the Red Sea.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
A look at what could have been done better to prevent thousands of flooding deaths in Nepal.
A coalition between Spain’s Populist, anti-immigrant Vox party with the center-right Popular Party could move the country closer to the far-right than ever before.
Flooding is common in Nepal, but the avalanche that triggered water and debris to surge down the Trishuli River was of an entirely different magnitude. We take a look at the causes behind the disaster.
As the United States honors its workers this Labor Day, it’s been 250 years since the nation was founded. We look at a defining ideal in the Declaration of Independence promoting “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” that was meant to resonate beyond the US.
In Nepal today, some welcome but unexpected news as two survivors were rescued — alive — from the tunnel of a hydropower plant, some nine days after getting trapped by devastating floods.
A new intelligence report alleges that the Moroccan government masterminded the recent migration crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
The World reports from on the ground in one of the hardest-hit districts of Nepal from recent flooding.
Families of Colombian veterans, who traveled to Ukraine and Russia to fight in the war between the two countries, are now searching for their loved ones who have disappeared on the battlefield, or whose bodies remain thousands of miles away.
Nearly a thousand of the people unaccounted for following the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet are Nepali hydropower workers. Hundreds of them are thought to be alive but trapped in tunnels and infrastructure buried by mud and debris.
The story of a Haitian deportee
September 25, 202649min 37sec
Since late August, a plane has flown once a week from Louisiana, carrying Haitians — who had been living in the US under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS — across the sea to the city of Cap-Haïtien, after the US Department of Homeland Security ended TPS for Haitians in late July. Also, global foreign aid is shrinking at a historic rate. And, Beijing’s view of the Xi-Trump meeting in Washington. Plus, how to eat the world’s “worst-smelling food” … the Swedish way
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