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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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US President Donald Trump landed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, today to take part in a summit with more than 20 world leaders. They will be signing a peace deal, brokered by Trump, for ending the war in Gaza. "It’s peace in the Middle East," Trump said. "Everyone said it’s not possible to do. And it’s going to happen." Israelis and Palestinians celebrated the ceasefire in Gaza, the release of Israeli hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails. But there are many potential obstacles ahead for securing lasting peace in Gaza and anything like the regional peace that Trump is talking about. The World's Matthew Bell has the latest.
Poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie are back with their second collaboration, "Aloud." It's a collection of poems and music by Jamaican-British Antrobus and the Scottish musician. They speak to Host Marco Werman about their collaboration and the responsibility they both feel about being two of the most famous, living deaf artists in the world.
Germany’s politics may be hopelessly polarized, but there’s one thing every German can agree on: They all love to hate the Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway. It's a national joke — and the Deutsche Bahn is laughing along with it. Reporter Valerie Hamilton has the story.
With more international ships traveling in the Arctic, The US Coast Guard is proposing a new two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast. The idea is to make travel in the region more efficient — and so better for the environment. The Alaska Desk's Alena Naiden reports from Anchorage.
There was speculation Monday that Madagascar's president fled the country after an influential branch of the military said this past weekend that it was taking control of the rest of the armed forces and backing the ongoing "Gen Z" protests. The president had called the military’s actions a coup. Host Marco Werman learns more from Solofo Randrianja, a historian of Madagascar’s contemporary politics at the University of Toamasina, the country's second largest city.
Two years of grief and anger in Israel turned into euphoria today with the release of 20 living hostages who survived kidnapping on Oct. 7, 2023, and captivity in Gaza since then. Israelis greeted US President Donald Trump as a hero who secured the hostages' release, while they booed their own Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not acting sooner. Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky spent the day in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, and breaks down the day's events to Host Carolyn Beeler.
Since August, Ukraine has been targeting Russia's oil industry with drone strikes. Dozens of attacks in recent weeks have had ripple effects on a vital sector of Russia's economy. Host Carolyn Beeler learns more from Craig Kennedy, an expert on Russia's oil industry at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Unending street protests, prime ministers forced to resign. France has had three prime ministers since snap elections in 2024 destabilized President Emmanuel Macron's centrist, business-friendly government. The instability continues as parties from the far-left to the far-right dig in their heels, hoping to topple Macron and scramble to the top of the political heap. The World's Gerry Hadden explains why this is making European leaders nervous.
In July, 24 European Union lawmakers agreed to undertake blood tests to check their bodies for “forever chemicals,” or PFAS. The chemicals have been linked to a host of health problems, including cancer, liver damage and decreased fertility. They are found in everything from nonstick frying pans to pizza boxes. This week, their test results came back. The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry has more.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long fight to restore democracy in her country. From hiding in Caracas, the 58-year-old called the award “an achievement of a whole society.” The honor shines new light on Venezuela’s political crisis — and on a woman many see as the enduring symbol of resistance against President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule.
China has expanded its restrictions on the export of rare earths, minerals critical for everything from electronics to renewable energy production. This comes weeks before talks between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jonathan Czin, China fellow at the Brookings Institution, about what this new restriction means.
One of the potential sticking points in the proposal put forward by the Trump administration to end the war in Gaza is for Hamas to give up its weapons. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on what we know so far about this part of the negotiations.
This week Australia signed major security deals with India and Papua New Guinea and there's one country that's not especially happy: China. The partnerships come amid growing Chinese influence in the Pacific. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler learns more from Patricia O'Brien, an Australia and Pacific analyst at Georgetown University in Washington.
A NASA satellite dipped into Venus' upper atmosphere in the summer of 2020 and recorded radio waves. The agency translated those radio waves into sound waves, which revealed how Venus' atmosphere reacts to the sun. As Host Carolyn Beeler explains, this gives scientists more insight into why Venus is so different from Earth, despite their similar sizes. When the probe flew super close to the sun, through its corona, the translated sounds were haunting.
Only an estimated 100,000 speak the Judeo-Spanish language known as Ladino, once common among Sephardic Jews throughout the Mediterranean. One millennial songwriter is on a quest to save Ladino to honor her Moroccan grandmother. Nani Vazana tells us her story.This story originally aired on March 6, 2025.
The Israeli military pulled its forces back from parts of the central Gaza Strip. And earlier today, large crowds of Palestinians started walking back to their homes — or what's left of them — in Gaza City. Many Israelis and Palestinians are hoping this is the end of the war, not just another temporary truce. What comes next in the US-brokered peace plan? Early next week, all living hostages held in Gaza for the last two years are expected to be released, and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will go free from Israeli jails. After that, there are lots of unanswered questions and potential roadblocks on the road to lasting peace. The World's Matthew Bell has the latest.
Working as a foreigner in the US is getting harder, with the Trump administration cracking down on both legal and illegal immigration. In an announcement last month, the White House revamped the H-1B visa policy and announced that US companies that want to hire skilled foreign workers would have to pay $100,000 per visa application. The earlier fee ranged between $2,000 and $5,000. Priyanka Shankar reports from Bengaluru, India, where there's a mixture of resignation and defiance.
US President Donald Trump has announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after two years of a deadly conflict. Israeli hostages are expected to be released by early next week, and Israel's army is to pull partially out of Gaza as a first step. People on both sides are cautiously optimistic. We have two reports with reactions from inside Israel and Gaza. The World's Matthew Bell looks at Israelis' thoughts. But first The World's Shirin Jaafari has been in touch with Palestinians inside Gaza and reports on how they're feeling.
Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman catch you up on some sports headlines that might have flown under your radar.
The house where the great Czech composer Antonin Dvorak was born in 1841 has just reopened after years of renovation. The end result is an interactive, immersive audio journey through the composer’s early life, letting you hear the sounds that he heard — the hustle and bustle of the village inn, the trains rushing by outside, the peal of the church bells. Rob Cameron from our partners at DW, Deutsche Welle, was given a tour, and has this report.
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