American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the ...

Voters in Ecuador will head to the polls for general elections this weekend. The next president will face the enormous task of dismantling well-funded and powerful organized crime groups in the ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was once home to all kinds of birds, ...

WhatsApp, used by millions of people around the world, says its users were hacked by the Paragon Solutions spyware company.

Advancing the human rights of LGBTQ people around the world was part of the Biden administration’s policy agenda. The point person for that effort was Jessica Stern, a US special envoy. She left the ...

President Joe Biden appointed Jessica Stern as the US special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons. She left office last month with the changing of the guard at the White House. In her ...

President Donald Trump restored his former policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran. But he followed that with online comments signaling a willingness to work toward a nuclear deal. The World’s Carolyn ...

Temperatures rose to unseasonable highs throughout Russia last week. In Moscow, city-dwellers welcomed the reprieve from the cold, casting off their heavy coats and delighting in the sound of singing ...

With recent cuts to foreign aid, including programs like PEPFAR, thousands of Africans living with HIV face an uncertain future. Although the freeze was followed by an exemption for “life-saving ...

This week, a ceasefire took hold in the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, the grim task of burying some 2,000 bodies begins. The World’s Marco Werman spoke to Arlette Bashizi, a ...

Syria’s national symphony orchestra performed last week at the Damascus opera house. As hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain, musicians and audiences alike expressed relief that the arts are ...