In northern Kenya, livestock is the heartbeat of rural life. Herders guiding their sheep, goats, cattle or camels across parched landscapes now struggle to find pastures with enough water. Each year, ...

Hoonah, Alaska, is a small fishing village with a population or 862 members who make up the local Tlingit community. But each year, more than half a million cruise ship passengers step ashore for a fe...

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In Ghana, university admission mainly hinges on WASSCE results, with students competing based on grades and cut-off points. Personal essays, extracurriculars, or leadership play little role. In Accra,...

In northern Kenya, livestock is the heartbeat of rural life. Herders guiding their sheep, goats, cattle or camels across parched landscapes now struggle to find pastures with enough water. Each year, ...

Several thousand US troops are making their final withdrawal from Iraq by Wednesday. US soldiers have been stationed in the country for more than two decades. Victoria Taylor, director of the Iraq Ini...

The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. A co-production of PRX and GBH.

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A classically trained cellist in the Midwest finds new inspiration in the music of her youth, from Turkish folk tunes to funk.

The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. A co-production of PRX and GBH.

The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. A co-production of PRX and GBH.

The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. A co-production of PRX and GBH.

A new database holds close to 4 million records of people enslaved in British colonies from the Caribbean to South Africa during the early 1800s. Now free to use and searchable online, the archive was...

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Denmark is often ranked among the world’s happiest countries. It prides itself on its strong social welfare system and a culture of coziness. But for asylum seekers, things aren’t quite so comfortable...

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“The Marching Band” is a French comedy-drama about two long lost brothers who are musicians from different social classes. They meet only when one of them finds out he has leukemia, and needs a donor ...

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After a natural disaster, people with disabilities are more vulnerable to death, injury and difficulty accessing help. In Nepal, people with disabilities who have survived the floods are facing a lack...

The military junta in Mali has increasingly relied on drones to fight against separatists and an al-Qaida-backed insurgency. While state-run media have hailed these “surgical strikes” on “terrorists,”...

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National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been sea kayaking his way down the Inside Passage, a network of straits, fjords and islands spanning much of the northwestern coastline of North America. ...

The military junta in Mali has increasingly relied on drones to fight against separatists and an al-Qaida-backed insurgency. While state-run media have hailed these “surgical strikes” on “terrorists,”...

Police in Germany apprehended a man last week suspected of planning and carrying out sabotage against the country’s electricity network. Authorities say the 48-year-old suspect’s apparent motive was t...

The Kremlin has a long track record of meddling in the elections of its adversaries. Now artificial intelligence is giving Russia new tools that could make interference easier and more sophisticated. ...

The Trump administration is changing how long international students can stay in the US before they must reapply for a visa ... or go home. The new four-year cap takes effect September 15. Higher education leaders say it could make it much harder for st...

Measles cases globally increased by 8% since 2019, reversing two decades of decline, says WHO. Host Carolyn Beeler interviews infectious disease epidemiologist Kathryn Jacobsen on the causes.

Experts and officials have pointed to a collapsing glacier high in the Himalayas as the trigger for deadly flash flooding in Tibet and Nepal last week. Climate scientists warn that global warming may ...

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Susan Meiselas has worked for the famed photo agency Magnum Photos for 50 years. Her work has documented upheavals and conflicts in South and Central America, among other places. On September 11, 2001...

In a place that’s prone to flooding and landslides, the recent disaster that struck along Nepal’s border with Tibet still came as a shock. As recovery efforts continue, everyone from locals to scienti...

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The World's Host Marco Werman speaks with Susan Retik, a 9/11 widow who created Beyond the 11th, a charity that helps Afghan women.

Guest Maria Mitri with the Friends Committee on National Legislation argues that today’s militarized immigration enforcement grew out of the post-9/11 “War on Terror". National security tactics develo...