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Panmunjom has been called "the most tense place on the planet." Here is what it's like to visit.

The US is suspending security assistance to Pakistan for failing to cooperate with the US in the fight against terrorism.

Actor Pablo Azar helped win union representation for fellow performers at Telemundo, a major Florida-based telenovela production house. But the full rights and benefits actors demand have yet to be sealed.

In 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov seemed invincible. But after playing the IBM computer Deep Blue, everything changed.

The northeastern United States has been engulfed in snow and cold. Moscow? Not so much. And that's been a big drag for winter photographer Ivan Boiko.

We love music here at The World, and we love to share our latest favorites with you. Here are some of the artists we featured this week.

The word "bomb" has been used to describe rapidly intensifying winter storms for decades.

Hurricanes Irma and Maria brought a catastrophic power outage to Puerto Rico. But they also created an unprecedented opportunity for solar power and battery storage on the island.

Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed a desire to bring DACA recipients into the fold, but with a president who rode into office using anti-immigrant rhetoric, it’s unclear what kind of concessions might be made.

Guitarist and movie producer Stevie Salas shares the untold history of Native Americans in rock and roll.

Bestselling Young Adult author Angie Thomas on how the late TLC performer Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes spoke to her at a very troubling point in her life.

How “Penelope Ashe” pulled off the biggest literary caper of the century.

Venezuela is flush with oil. But in the past three years its economy has collapsed.

Neha Mahajan won the right to work in the US during the Obama administration, but as the spouse of an H-1B visa holder, her future is uncertain.

Food has become big business in New Jersey, a destination for imports, exports and testing out foreign foods before they enter the US market.

The World speaks with Politico's Susan Glasser who says, "You have no idea what's going on."

Protesters denounced Iran's regime in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, where 85% of Iran's onshore oil and 60% of its gas resources originate.

Nearly 8,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in Serbia. Iraqis and Syrians have the best chances of being granted asylum. People with money can pay a smuggler to take them across the border. It's only the most desperate that try to cross the border into Croatia — and the European Union — illegally.

Iranian authorities have temporarily blocked social media platforms Instagram and Telegram in order to "maintain peace," according to Iranian state TV.

After months of giving South Korea the cold shoulder, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in his New Year's speech that he was willing to send a delegation to the 2018 Olympics in the south.

In 2017, Ian Bremmer was most concerned about "America First" policies. Here, he reviews his predictions from last year and tell us what he is most concerned about for 2018.

South Korea on Tuesday offered talks with North Korea amid a standoff over its weapons programs, a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was open to negotiations but that his country would push ahead with "mass producing" nuclear warheads.

We live today in the age of digital data. Your photos, your documents and more are stored in the cloud, thumb drives, laptops and tablets. But, surprisingly, we might be in more danger of one day losing our data than we were in the past.

Much of the world's recycling gets shipped to China for processing. But starting Jan. 1, China is enacting much tougher standards for the purity of recycling imports, standards most American, and European, recyclers simply can't meet. And that has recycling piling up throughout the United States.

Ten people were killed overnight in the violence during protests in Iran, local media reported on Monday, while President Hassan Rouhani said the Iranian people would respond to "rioters and lawbreakers."

The potentially harmful effects of cellphones have been analyzed for years, with no conclusive evidence one way or the other thus far.

“The fossil fuel industry, which has been an awful good business for the last 200 years, isn't a good business going forward. And the smart money is heading for the exits now,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben.

High cost and a limited range have been discouraging factors for people interested in purchasing an electric vehicle. But that's changing quickly.

Going for a jog or even a long walk outdoors has well-known benefits to our health. But research suggests that, even without much physical activity, just stepping into the natural world can enhance well-being. Now some doctors are starting to prescribe time outdoors for their patients.

North Korea has nuclear weapons, and missile systems to deliver them to the continental United States. North Korea says these are defensive. But the Trump administration sees them as a threat, and is reviewing "all options." What are the risks of war in northeast Asia in 2018?

Frigid temperatures across North America don’t mean that the globe isn’t warming.

Despite numerous examples of the game's former stars entering politics, Weah is the first former player to succeed in being elected head of his country.

My grandparents moved to the United States from Russia in 2013. This year, I sat down with them to ask about how they celebrated the New Year back home.

More than half of selfies uploaded on Chinese social media are believed to have been edited using apps created by Meitu. The Chinese company has been around for just about a decade, but some say its products are changing beauty standards in China.

The end of the year seems like a good time to review what we really know about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Who was Mary Webster and why did Margaret Atwood dedicate "The Handmaid’s Tale" to her?

One brave critic not only defends, but praises, “The Godfather: Part III.”

Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker on how she cut Martin Scorsese’s passion project, “Silence.”

Yewande Omotoso on apartheid, architecture and her novel, "The Woman Next Door."

More than 40 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide blast targeting Shiites in Kabul Thursday. The Sunni Islamic State group (IS) claimed responsibility for the gruesome assault on the pro-Iranian Tabayan cultural center, the third deadly attack it has claimed in the Afghan capital this month.

Former residents of Northview Heights in Pittsburgh remember marching bands and days at the recreation center. But that was before shootings and drugs became commonplace for some 1,600 residents of the public housing project.

Homeland Security has long been looking to expand its operations beyond US borders. Some countries have pushed back, stating concerns about possible civil rights violations; others are still debating.

Syria has allowed a group of about 30 people to be evacuated from the besieged district of Ghouta, near the Syrian capital of Damascus. The group included children with curable forms of cancer and spurred talk of possible future evacuations.

Finland has a law on the books that allows street harassers to be fined on the spot. But it's not as comprehensive as you might think.

Two-time world chess champion Anna Muzychuk says she is boycotting the next world championship tournament because it's being held in Saudi Arabia, where women's rights are severely restricted. The Ukrainian is giving up her chance to win record prize money and the chance to defend her title because she doesn't want to feel like a "secondary creature."

President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall has outraged and stuck fear across Mexico. Now the anti-immigrant rhetoric of one municipal president in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has drawn comparisons to the US president. They call him El Trump Oaxaqueño — the Oaxacan Trump.

Ten years after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, was killed in Rawalpindi the unanswered questions about her assassination still fuel conspiracy theories.

'Tis the season for garish holiday displays. But outdoor lighting is a year-long phenomenon, and it might be having unintended consequences.

The Russian disinformation threat dates back decades. But according to a new report by The Washington Post, US officials have failed to effectively respond to it.