Professional rakugo storytellers all over Japan practice an art form dating back to the 14th century. One such performer is Katsura Sunshine, a white man from Canada, who fell in love with it, and who ...
On a busy afternoon in downtown Caracas, among government ministries and faded political murals, a smaller building stands out. Its exterior walls are painted with images of Hugo Chávez, the late ...
In a fit of excitement, Hungary’s incoming health minister danced wildly at the victory party for the country’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar. As Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain, he ...
Some 25 million Americans live with rare genetic diseases — that’s nearly 1 in 13. More than half are children. The path to discovering what the condition is, and finding treatments, can take years.
The US-Israeli war against Iran has triggered a plastic shortage in Asia. The region gets most of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and as a result of the effective blockade, countries cannot ...
The Siberian region known as the Kuzbass is right in the heart of Russia’s coal country, and pollution from open mines there has gone ignored by authorities, despite a high rate of respiratory illness ...
Relatives of Mexico’s disappeared took to the streets yesterday for a Mother’s Day march, calling on authorities to do more to deter kidnappings, abductions and murders. A new report finds many of the ...
The worst terrorist attack in Japan’s modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour on the Tokyo subway system. Members of a violent cult called Aum Shinrikyo ...
As tensions over immigration reach a crisis point in South Africa, the Nigerian government has even offered to repatriate its ...
Twenty-year-old Amadou Bari, from Guinea, in western Africa, has tried over and over to cross into Europe from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the northern tip of Africa, since 2022. “I tried so many ...
A widening purge of the Chinese military is reshaping its senior command. Over the weekend, the country’s defense ministry said the highest-ranking general in the People’s Liberation Army was under ...
Russia’s annual Victory Day Parade this weekend is expected to lack the usual show of ballistic missiles and tanks. Meanwhile ...
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