World news, local voices. A weekly trip to where the story is unfolding. Hosted by Tamara Khandaker.
In the latest season of Understood, Mumbai-based journalist Salimah Shivji examines how Modi went from being barred from the US,... more
If you're a sports fan, you may have noticed Saudi Arabia making billions of dollars of investments in everything from... more
About two weeks ago, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni approved one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, despite the U.S. government... more
The BRICS nations, a group of growing economies including: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are reasserting themselves on... more
Two back-to-back shootings near Belgrade, Serbia, have shocked the country. One of those was carried out by a 13-year-old student... more
Whether it's ChatGPT, image generators like Dall-E or celebrity deepfakes, artificial intelligence technology has grown exponentially in the last few... more
Over the weekend, Germany pledged an additional $4 billion Cdn of military aid to Ukraine, after a visit from Ukrainian... more
How did Juan Guaido, Venezuela's self-declared interim leader, end up alone in the Miami airport, carrying only a backpack, seeking... more
The coronation of King Charles III is just a couple days away and he's the first new British monarch to... more
Two rival military generals in Sudan have been locked in a violent power struggle for the past two weeks. Hundreds... more
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