Gulf Arab states struggle under the cloud of war
Many places in the Persian Gulf like Dubai, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, have spent decades modernizing and inviting investment from around the...
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State of Ukraine
With reporters on the ground, conversations with politicians and officials, and breakdowns of what's going on, we'll bring you everything you need to know about the Russian invasion of Ukrai...
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A macho Mexican superstar sings songs full of emotion
With his crooked cowboy hat, thick black beard and oversized belt buckles, Carín León looks every bit the macho Mexican superstar singer tha...
Venezuela’s popular opposition leader returns to the country
Politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela. She led the opposition to authoritarian le...
The Israeli election is deadlocked
Israel has held an important election– its first since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attacks on that country. The vote is a referendum on th...
Why Ukraine and Russia agreed to a ceasefire in just one city
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a very limited ceasefire to help a Ukrainian city that’s been under Russian occupation for nearly five yea...
Surprising election results in Brazil and Serbia
We look at unexpected election results in different parts of the globe, in which the youth vote played a major role. In Brazil, the leftist...
Drones make the Russia-Ukraine war front line a ‘kill zone’?
The Russia-Ukraine war is sometimes compared to the static, deadlocked, trench warfare of World War I. Yet it’s also been the defining confl...
Why a game gaining popularity in the U.S. is giving Chinese factories a needed boost
Chinese manufacturers have not had it easy these past few years, with U.S. tariffs as well as the wars in Ukraine and Iran pushing up their...
Our reporter witnesses the largest detention of West Bank activists in a decade
In the Israeli occupied West Bank, dozens of Americans have been detained, including a politician running for Congress. Settler violence and...
Why workers in India are training their AI robot replacements
Sometimes it feels like when we aren’t worried about AI destroying humanity — we worry about it replacing white collar jobs like lawyers, ac...
Israel prepares for a high-stakes election
Israel holds an election on October 27th, electing members of the Knesset, their parliament. And this election will decide the future of Pri...
A conversation with President Volodmyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine
Ukraine finds itself in a difficult situation. It has endured increased airstrikes from Russia, especially in the capital Kyiv. One way the...
A Gaza war documentary sparks outrage in Israel
In the new documentary “NAZA”, two dozen anonymous Israeli military and intelligence officers describe how they used an AI-powered system to...
A German intelligence scandal
The arrest last week of Germany’s former intelligence head, August Hanning, has left the country in shock. He’s suspected of sharing state s...
Desperate Iranians head to Turkey in search of work
With a battered economy made worse by war, many Iranians are looking for ways to provide for their families. Some decide to travel days over...
Encore: What 9,000 year old remains in Germany tell us about human development
In this encore episode, we learn about our evolving understanding of an ancient find. When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered...
The roots of the Mexican music known as fandango
We go to Mexico’s gulf coast to learn about fandango. It is a joyous musical tradition born in the Mexican state of Veracruz that’s been goi...
Gaza, three years after the war there began
It has been three years since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that led to Israel’s invasion of Gaza. It’s a war that has yet to end, despite...
3 years after the Hamas-led attacks, Israelis are returning to areas near Gaza
Three years after the October 7th attacks, Israel’s southern border with Gaza is undergoing a dramatic rebound. That region was nearly aband...
Afghanistan 25 years after the U.S. invasion
This week marks twenty five years since the United States invaded Afghanistan, on October 7th, 2001. It was less than a month after the Sept...