Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about ...

A Syrian military defector whose photographs made clear the extent to which torture and killing were taking place inside the prisons of the former Assad regime has revealed his identity. The man ...

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 ...

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made clear that despite his musings about Gaza this week, “the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza.” But Americans ...

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 ...