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Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.
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From the late 1990s through the early 2000s, US oil giant Exxon spent tens of thousands of dollars funding think tanks across Latin America to promote climate skepticism. That’s according to a new investigation by the climate journalism organization DeSmog. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to the author of the investigation, Geoff Dembicki. He’s the global managing editor of DeSmog, which co-published the findings with The Guardian.
No longer just QR codes on doorways, China’s surveillance of Uyghurs is now hidden in Cloud services and software updates. Dina Temple-Raston of the "Click Here" podcast looks at how digital tools meant to protect identity are being used to erase it. Her story focuses on a cyberattack against members of the World Uyghur Congress.
Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman survey global headlines flying just under the radar.
Thirty years ago today, a far-right Israeli extremist shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with author Robert Malley about Rabin’s legacy, and why the former general’s hopes for peace in the region faltered. Malley’s new book with co-author Hussein Agha is called, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine.”
Sir David Beckham was knighted by the UK's King Charles today. The ceremony took place at Windsor Castle and the former soccer pro knelt before the monarch, who touched his shoulders with a sword to make it official. But the honor acknowledges more than just the soccer player's work on the field. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman have the details.
Paris has launched a lottery to restore some of the spectacular funerary monuments within the overcrowded cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre. Gravestones and monuments in Parisian cemeteries are maintained by families, not the city, and some graves can become abandoned and decrepit over time. So, Paris officials would like residents to come in, fix up monuments and be buried alongside the likes of Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain.
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney, who died on Monday at the age of 84, became an influential figure in Washington on matters of foreign policy starting in the 1970s. Cheney believed in the robust use of America power — including military force — to shape the world to serve US national security interests. He was a strong advocate for the first Gulf War, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and a central player in the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Cheney was also one of the architects of the so-called "War on Terror," which has had a profound impact on US influence around the globe. The World's Matthew Bell reports.
Turkey welcomed not one but two major European leaders to its capital last week. First, the UK’s Keir Starmer, then Germany’s Friedrich Merz. For more than a decade, Turkey’s backsliding on democracy has lead to distance from Europe. But the growing threat from Russia, and Turkey’s potential role in Europe’s defense, seem to be ushering in a new era of cooperation, ironically, at the same time that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's crackdown on domestic opposition figures reaches a new peak. Deutsche Welle, DW's Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.
When the Intercontinental Hotel first opened its doors in Kabul in 1969, Afghanistan was embracing modernity. In the decades that followed, it kept those doors open through a Soviet occupation, civil wars, a US-led invasion and the rise, fall and rise again of the Taliban. Journalist Lyse Doucet follows the lives of the hotel’s staff as they navigate decades of change in her new book "The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan."
Northern parts of Afghanistan were hit with a strong earthquake overnight Monday. At least 20 people were killed and many injured, according to local officials. This is the second time since August that the country has been hit with a strong earthquake. The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with Host Marco Werman.
Today in a ceremony hidden from public view Tanzania swore in Samia Hassan for a second term as president. She won with a landslide 98% of the vote in an election that has sparked nationwide protests, and that many international observers are concerned was rigged. Host Marco Werman learns more from Daniel Paget, a specialist in Tanzania's elections and an assistant professor at the University of Sussex in the UK.
When Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, it tore through the country's agricultural center, demolishing crops and killing livestock. Now, as aid flows into the country, concerns are rising about the country's food security moving forward. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Linda Roth from World Central Kitchen about what she's hearing from farmers.
Game 7 of the World Series stretched past midnight into Sunday in Toronto, and has passed into baseball lore as one of the greatest endings of one of the greatest World Series ever.Japan's attention — and everyone else's — was already on the Dodgers' pitcher and slugger Shohei Ohtani. But Yoshinobu Yamamoto stole the show. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman have the details.
Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman highlight some global headlines you might have missed.
One year after a deadly railway station disaster in Serbia that killed 16 people, families of the victims are still waiting for accountability. Tens of thousands took to the streets of the city of Novi Sad on Saturday, where the tragedy happened, to mark the anniversary. The disaster sparked the country’s largest student protest movement in decades. Students say protests will not stop until early elections are held. The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.
The Trump administration has decided to cap refugee admissions to a record low of 7,500 resettlement slots, prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa. Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, head of Global Refuge, tells Host Carolyn Beeler that the change in policy will dismantle a program that for decades has assisted individuals from around the world fleeing conflict and persecution.
The Maldives becomes the only country to adopt a law banning tobacco sales to people born after a specific date. The measure went into effect over the weekend, and means that anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, will never be able to buy tobacco in the Maldives. Host Carolyn Beeler has more.
India has a long tradition of stories involving well-known ghosts and monsters. In this favorite Halloween interview from Halloweens past, Kolkata-based reporter Sandip Roy talked to Rakesh Khanna about the illustrated guide he'd just written — back in 2021— to help people understand the cast of ghostly, ghoulish and monstrous characters.
Before it was destroyed in 2018, the Yarmouk camp near Damascus was home to Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. During the Syrian civil war that started in 2011, government forces laid siege to the camp, creating dire humanitarian conditions inside. Today, the camp is slowly starting to come back to life, as residents return and rebuild. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other died a year later. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler has the story.
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