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The World staff

Cold food for hot weather
7:08
In Iran, grieving comes with punishment
5:29
A woman in a cream-colored blazer standing indoors, smiling, with a group of people in the background.
Global Politics
Inside Caracas: How Venezuelans view Machado’s leadership
6:47
A group of people standing on steps holding signs and photos, advocating for the release of political prisoners, with various posters and names displayed on the ground.
Global Politics
Venezuela begins releasing political prisoners — but slowly
5:44
A person walks in front of a colorful mural depicting silhouettes of oil pumps, with a background of yellow, blue, and red hues.
Energy
Inside the high-stakes push to bring US oil companies back to Venezuela
5:39
The value of American higher education
Indian students consider other countries to continue their studies
5:21
Indian students consider other countries to pursue their studies
5:21
Health & Medicine
Cuban medical missions face scrutiny amid allegations of forced labor
7:26
Arts, Culture & Media
Photos: Syrian photographer documents loss and rebirth in the country following the fall of Assad  
Parents of detained Turkish students organize a solidarity network
4:15
Conflict
Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
5:45
Leaders
Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
6:48
Food
Which cold foods do people across the globe enjoy during sweltering summer months?
Makaa or charcoal is often used in cooking methods in Kenya and other countries in Africa.
Energy
The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide
6:52
Man cuts quartz in factory.
Health & Medicine
Lungs of stone: How Silica has sickened a generation of quartz cutters
Thai hunger strikers nearing 50 days without food
Street protests return in Venezuela
Beijing’s Olympics human rights
The back of a group of students in black gowns and graduation caps.
The price of higher ed
The World’s 2024 education special: The price of higher ed 
Image from a poster depicting a toucan at the new exhibition, "Imaginary Amazon," at the University of San Diego, featuring works by contemporary artists, many of them Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon. 
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Imaginary Amazon’ exhibition counters negative stereotypes through contemporary art
Haiti's annual PapJazz Festival brings together local and international audiences for rich and diverse musical experiences.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘It’s an act of resistance’: Haiti’s jazz festival opens in Port-au-Prince despite security challenges
Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler, co-hosts, "The World."
Media
The World adds co-host to public radio’s longest-running global news program
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are seen in tents in town of Khan Younis, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
LISTEN: Voices from across the globe as the Israel-Hamas war continues to unfold
tablescape of assorted Nigerian foods
Food
A food writer celebrates the tastes of her hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
prison getting raided
Conflict & Justice
What is behind the seizure of Venezuela’s most-notorious prison?
People demonstrate in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, June 30, 2023.
The price of higher ed
Student loans can be ‘simple’ and ‘automatic.’ Other countries offer lessons to the US.
People demand the release of students who had taken refuge at the Jesus of Divine Mercy church amid a barrage of armed attacks, during a protest near the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, UNAN, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 14, 2018.
Sacred Nation
Nicaragua seizes Jesuit university in latest clash between president and Catholic Church
Nelson Mandela, left, and his wife Winnie, raise clenched fists as they walk hand-in-hand from the Victor Verster prison near Cape Town, South Africa on Feb. 11, 1990.
Conflict & Justice
‘Winnie and Nelson’: A new book explores a fraught political partnership
Yellow sign on beach warning people to stay out of water because of pollutants, in Tijuana River Valley
Environment
Pollution from Tijuana River contaminates marine border areas
DMV rapper and record producer Oddisee realized early on that purpose and success are self-designated.
Movement
Sudanese American rapper Oddisee on overcoming cultural taboos and confronting self-doubt
Pilani Bubu found her music community after she moved from South Africa to New Orleans. She understood that the people she met wanted to learn more about her culture back home. That’s when she started to incorporate South African music into her repertoire
Music
South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition
Belongings of Halima Ali Maiyanga and Maryam Ali Maiyanga, two of the young women kidnapped by Boko Haram in a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, in April 2014.
Conflict & Justice
‘The Stolen Daughters of Chibok’: the impact of the abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls 9 years on
soldiers
50 years ago, Nixon announced the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam
Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Voudo goddesses and saints.
Music
Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage
Aïda Muluneh's "To pursue the ceaseless way," is exhibited on a bus stop in the Boston area. The photograph is part of "This is where I am," presented by New York-based Public Art Fund.
Aïda Muluneh’s public art photo exhibit is ‘a love letter to Ethiopia’
Singer Gloria Estefan performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park, in New York, May 15, 2019.
Music
Gloria Estefan is set to be the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Vira Ustyanska, a 34-year-old artist, fled her home in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, soon after the war started. She now lives in San Diego, California, with a host family waiting for the war to end.
Ukraine
Finding home in California after fleeing war in Ukraine
soldiers on field
Ukraine
A year of war in Ukraine: A timeline of key moments
Firefighters and rescue teams search for people in a destroyed building, in Adana, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.
Natural disasters
How to support relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after deadly quakes
Ilona Kravchenko and Jan Vana perform in “Giselle” with the Ukrainian Classical Ballet in Bucharest, Romania.
Ukraine
The long fight for arts and culture in Ukraine as war rages on
president with officers
Who are Brazil’s private security guards who outnumber the police?
Album covers of some of the allbums from artists included in the end-of-year music playlist with recommendations from The World staff. Clockwise, startiing from the top left corner: Adrian Quesada's "Boleros Psicodélicos," Sillvana Estrada's "Marchita," V
Music
A musical journey around the globe 2022, a playlist
soldiers in a tank
Conflict & Justice
As bombs fall, northern Syria braces for a potential Turkish invasion
In this Aug. 3, 2007, file photo, psilocybin mushrooms are seen in a grow room at the Procare farm in Hazerswoude, central Netherlands. 
Medicine
Study: ‘Magic’ mushrooms show promise for treating severe depression
man sitting in front of flags
Ukraine
Putin’s war in Ukraine through a historical lens
Heavily armed Tamil Tiger rebels walk down a street in Achchuveli village, north east of Jaffna City, Sri Lanka, on Nov. 4, 1987. 
Books
‘A murder mystery and a ghost story’ about Sri Lanka’s civil war wins Booker Prize
Norway's World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen competes in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram, India
Culture
The cheating scandal rocking the chess world
In this image made from a NASA livestream, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft crashes into an asteroid
Science & Technology
NASA spacecraft successfully crashes into asteroid during space defense test
Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and continues to exhibit long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, on Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, New York.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Long COVID, the search for answers
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks on during a visit to officially open the new building at Thames Hospice, Maidenhead, England July 15, 2022.
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s monarch for 70 years, dies
Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home after monsoon rains, in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. 
Natural disasters
‘Doomsday’ flooding in Pakistan linked to glacial melt, expert says
The World's Daniel Ofman speaks with Lviv Mayor Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi about how he's helping his city prepare for a long winter amid the ongoing war with Russia. 
Ukraine
‘Never give up’: Lviv mayor prepares for long winter amid ongoing war with Russia 
A man collects copper wires from the market which was destroyed after Russian bombardment in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. 
Ukraine
Medics on Ukraine’s front lines say war takes a heavy toll on mental health 
Ukrainian servicemen prepare their weapon to fire Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022.
Ukraine
US will support Ukraine against Russian aggression ‘as long as it takes,’ US State Dept. spokesperson says
As a part of the Afro-Andean Funk duo, Araceli Poma, a Latin Grammy-nominated Peruvian singer and producer, together with bassist, composer and producer Matt Geraghty, often makes music about Indigenous language, culture and shamanism.
Afro-Andean Funk duo unites cultures through music
A team of naturalists trekked to Haiti’s longest mountain range, the Massif du Nord, to try to find the elusive flower.
Environment
Naturalists in Haiti rediscover the elusive magnolia flower
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, visits the community of Guyuanxiang in the Tianshan District in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. 
Human rights
US companies reexamine supply chains under new law against Uyghur forced labor
Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015.
Human rights
Mynamar junta executes 4 pro-democracy activists to ‘instill fear,’ Radio Free Asia editor says
Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada
Justice
Pope Francis apologizes to Canada’s Indigenous communities. But some say it doesn’t go far enough.