For The World

When you drive along the highway heading toward Rio de Janeiro’s airport in Brazil, you pass a huge neighborhood known as Maré. You wouldn’t stop there, unless you had a good reason to. That’s because it’s a favela, or a poor community. Many favelas are on Rio’s hillsides. This one is squeezed between a pair […]

French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé is facing backlash in China after a video circulated of him apparently mentioning an internet meme depicting him as a “Chinese dictator.” Chinese brands have reportedly dropped sponsorship deals, while state television has threatened to stop broadcasting Spanish soccer league games. Mbappé has since apologized, but the controversy highlights the […]

After years of climate pledges that have failed to deliver sufficient support on the ground, African countries are heading to COP31, the UN climate summit in Turkey, demanding accessible finance, technology and concrete action to protect vulnerable communities, including Ghana’s struggling cocoa farmers.

Record turnout at the polls by Palestinian citizens of Israel has positioned Arab parties to win a historic 19 out of 120 seats in Israel’s parliament. With no coalition gaining an outright majority, one question now is if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents will partner with Arab parties to oust the longstanding leader. From Abu […]

Pope Leo XIV will visit Argentina between Nov. 8-11. One of the main stops will be the city of Luján, where he’ll celebrate Mass outside a basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Weeks before his arrival, Catholics walked about 37 miles (60 kilometers) to the same shrine in an annual youth pilgrimage. A record 2.7 […]

Jamaicans are marking the one year anniversary of the strongest hurricane to ever hit the island. Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Jamaica’s southwest coast as a Category 5 storm. The storm tracked north and east, leveling homes and mangling farms and businesses. Ultimately it killed 45 people and displaced thousands more. Since then, recovery has […]

The World’s Host Aaron Schachter speaks with Dr. Robert Vonderheide about a new vaccine that could soon help prevent melanoma from returning in those who have been diagnosed with it.

For the better part of a century, Germany’s two-track education system offered prestigious college degrees for the few and high-quality vocational qualifications for the many. But that’s changed over the past decade or so, and many more students have gotten a shot at higher education. But, as Valerie Hamilton reports from Weisbach, Germany, that’s left […]

Around 1 million Ukrainian refugees, most of them women and children, have been living in Poland since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It’s a vulnerable group: According to a report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Ukrainian women who have received protection in EU countries are frequently subjected to physical, sexual and psychological […]

A quick update that is not directly related to the Israeli election, but very much involves Mideast politics. You’ll recall that about a month ago, the American rapper Macklemore was supposed to open for Ed Sheeran on his Loop Tour. But arena owners accused Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian views of veering into antisemitism, and told Sheeran to […]