North Korea hosted a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the first in nearly seven years. Though the two neighboring countries have had an...

   Guadalajara is preparing for the World Cup with fan zones and celebrations, but the city is also the capital of one of Mexico’s most violent states....

   With ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill due to the war in Iran, companies are scrambling to find new and alternative...

   Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers questions from Congress about radical changes to the U.S. refugee program a program that once had bipartisan...

   People in Iran are back online after a government-imposed digital blackout that lasted nearly three months. We hear from Iranians that reconnecting...

   Raja Ampat is a collection of some 600 islands in Indonesia’s West Papua province. It is a beautiful area with clear blue waters and coral reefs that...

   After the last few years of war, Israel controls adjacent territory in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Israeli officials say these areas are security buffer...

   Sri Lanka was careening from crisis to crisis, then came the Mideast war. People say they’ve got no buffer left.See pcm.adswizz.com for information...

   Mongbwalu, a once-thriving gold-mining town in eastern DRC, is now emerging as the epicenter of the country’s latest Ebola outbreak.See pcm.adswizz...

   In a West Bank spring where Palestinians used to rest and water their flocks, Israeli settlers now swim.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...

   In recent months, a number of fishermen in Ecuador say a U.S.-flagged vessel attacked them at sea and destroyed their boats. Their accounts come amid...

   Uyghurs are a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in China, that number in the millions. Human rights groups have accused China of persecuting Uyghurs...

   Climate change is making rainfall in Britain heavier and more erratic, meaning places that used to be dry are flooding regularly. So communities are...

   The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency because of an outbreak of Ebola centered in the Democratic...

   Cuba’s government says the Caribbean island nation has run out of oil, following a months-long energy blockade by the U.S. in hopes of forcing...

   It has been more than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is a war that has been grinding on without major changes in battle...

   President Trump’s recent decision to withdraw at least five thousand troops from Germany has sent shockwaves through a Bavarian town that, for...

   Jonathan Pollard worked as an analyst for the U.S. Navy in the 1980s. He spent 30 years behind bars in the U.S., convicted for spying for Israel. Now...

   Over a year ago, President Trump started imposing tariffs on China as part of Liberation Day . There was a back-and-forth escalation and at one point...

   President Trump has been using a wide range of tactics in the war with Iran in an effort to force the country to bend to U.S. demands. But experts...

   President Trump heads to China this week in an effort to stabilize the relationship between the two great powers. But the war in Iran hangs over the...

   Russia’s annual celebration of Victory Day, commemorating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, is traditionally a huge...

   In Nairobi, Kenya, tricked-out buses known as, matatus, roll through the streets, entertaining both passengers and passers-by. Matatu buses bump with...

   Although there is officially a ceasefire, fighting in south Lebanon between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah has escalated recently. According...

   Senior career diplomats at the U.S. State Department are effectively being forced into retirement. It’s a loss of talent that one former diplomat...

   The U.S military has begun an operation to end Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in an effort and re-open the waterway to global shipping...

   From fuel to food, fertilizer and flights, the fallout from the Iran war is reshaping the global economy. We hear from reporters in Africa, Asia,...

   After more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the destruction there is overwhelming. According to the United Nations, most...

   In today’s episode, a rare interview with the leader of a Hindu nationalist group in India known by the acronym RSS. They are the largest far right...

   The relationship between the United States and Cuba hasn’t been this tense for decades. Even as the the U.S. is engaged in high-level negotiations in...

   Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then the...

   India has seen a rise in Hindu nationalism in recent years, in it’s politics but also in the culture. And India’s famed Bollywood film industry has...

   Since the war with Iran began Ukraine has found itself in an unexpected position. In addition to receiving military aid, it is also a provider. Iran...

   Just before a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was set to expire, President Trump announced on social media that he was extending it. Iran says...

   We mark this moment in both Gaza and Israel. In Gaza, it has been six months since major hostilities with Israel ended. Aid for the territory’s two...

   As the end of a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran approaches, a separate but intertwined conflict may have an improved chance at peace....

   The war in Gaza has hardened positions across the Middle East. But two men say it brought them closer together and convinced them that the future is...

   For 25 years, ethnic Koreans who called Japan home were lured by propaganda to North Korea. Over 90,000 people heeded the call. They were promised...

   What began as a power struggle between the army and the powerful paramilitary force former allies in a coup that removed a civilian government has...

   After U.S.-backed Iraqi and Syrian forces defeated ISIS, its surviving fighters went to prison. Their wives and children were sent to detention camps...

   In 2024, Israel killed Hezbollah’s top leaders and is thought to have decimated its arsenal. So how is the Iran-backed group still firing rockets...

   Ukraine has been a country living through war for more than four years, since Russia’s full-scale invasion. But the experience of that war varies...

   Weapons evolve over the course of a war, and for the war in Ukraine the use of drones has radically altered the battlefield. But those same weapons...

   President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, just ahead of a deadline he imposed for the country to open the Strait of Hormuz or face...

   One Moscow poet is making rare criticism of the Russian war on Ukraine. The Russian assault on Ukraine is now in its fifth year. For ordinary...

   When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in 1930s Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda. But new...

   It’s been three months since the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Ordinary Venezuelans reflect on what that night of the Maduro capture was like,...

   Israel has invaded Lebanon as the war in Iran expands in the region. Israel says the move is in pursuit of Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters Hezbollah...

   On Monday, President Trump threatened to destroy civilian infrastructure across Iran, including the country’s desalination plants, vital for drinking...

   A conversation with an advocate for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence. He has thought a lot about what it could mean for the future of the...