The World: Latest Stories

Mexico vowed not to let the United States impose migration reforms on it as its leaders prepared Thursday to host US officials who are cracking down on illegal immigrants.

Mexico vowed not to let the United States impose migration reforms on it Thursday as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security chief John Kelly visited the country.

"I think I was the only living thing walking there, with my bicycle. ... I've never felt as miserable as that day."

Growing up, Father Khalil Jaar had to flee his home. Now he's taking in Iraqi refugees forced to leave theirs.

The crested anole is undergoing some remarkable changes — and fast.

As we adjust to a present of "alternative facts," there are still battles going on over the facts of the past. Like in Poland, where the Museum of the Second World War is embroiled in a standoff with its own government over the correct version of history.

The tactics outlined in Homeland Security memos include deporting undocumented immigrants to Mexico regardless of their nationality, and seeking expedited removal of these immigrants — meaning no court hearings, no due process.

The Department of Homeland Security this week announced the Trump administration's immigration plan, which includes increasing deportations.

If you are poor in Britain and married to a foreign spouse, you may not be able to live together.

Walk up and down Commonwealth Avenue on the Boston University campus, and it's easy to see and hear the presence of international students. The largest percentage of foreign students — here and nationwide — come from China. So when President Donald Trump sounds off, college administrators get anxious.

Many of you have already tweeted your questions to @PRI, @TheTakeaway and @PRITheWorld with the hashtag #100Days100Qs. We’ve waded through some of your questions and asked Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich to give us some answers.

Some of the Iranian Christians in Berlin have been refused asylum elsewhere and need a place to hang out for six months until they can apply for asylum in Germany.

Thaer al-Tahli was an activist in Homs, Syria, threatened by the regime. He was selected for possible resettlement in the US. But after three years and many hours of interviews, he's decided to withdraw his application.

Inspired by real events, the movie "Land of Mine" tells the story of a group of young German POWs who are captured by the Danish army and forced to dig up land mines along Denmark's coast.

He’s an Army lieutenant general with a reputation for being bull-headed and brutally honest. Many consider him a genius at both strategy and tactics.

Morocco is building one of the world's largest solar power plants in the desert east of Marrakesh, using a technology that will allow it to generate electricity well past sundown. It's part of an aggressive strategy to become energy independent.

President Donald Trump condemned the latest rash of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the US by calling them a “very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”

Newly installed Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt says “regulators exist to give certainty to those that they regulate."

Do you have to be a vegetarian non-smoker to be successful as a Syrian refugee in Canada? Jim Estill says yes.

One of Paris's newest museums features crazy antique audio equipment, like a phonograph from the 1920s shaped like a ski chalet. But the museum almost had to close last year.

It has its roots in 17th-century France, when a huge influx of French migrants known as "Huguenots" left their country.

The president reportedly interviewed four candidates. They were all white men.

A handful of scientists skipped a large annual meeting in Boston this weekend, where the impact of Trump administration policies on science took center stage.

If the vote does go to a runoff, and ex-banker Guillermo Lasso wins the presidency, he has promised to end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's asylum in Ecuador's London embassy.

As Europe shifts rightward, current policies are hotly debated.

Appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick for the US Supreme Court, has not presided over many environmental cases. But his well-written, very conservative court opinions provide insight into what his appointment could mean for law in this area.

Looking back to the US incarceration of Japanese Americans and how, as one historian puts it, people can "lose sight of our important national values of justice and rule of law."

Some walk across the border, others are smuggled. In the dead of winter, families are making the dangerous crossing from the US to Canada.

David Friedman went before the US Senate Thursday, where he made vague apologies for the divisive language that he's used in the past. One word he used during the campaign was from the era of the holocaust: "kapo."

What’s the word most people associate with the country of South Korea? K-pop. At least according to one survey conducted in Korea last year.

A Nigerian writer, Chitra Nagarajan, points out that there's a lot going outside the US that deserves attention.

We feature a unique selection of music on The World. Here are a few highlights from this month's broadcasts.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are both masters of their nations' media, and baffling to their critics. And with the election of Trump, Washington and Moscow have been on more amiable terms. But that might not last.

What rights do we have, if any, in that no-man’s-land between the plane and the international arrivals exit?

For the second time in two days, President Donald Trump was asked by reporters about rising anti-Semitism in America. And each time, he declined to offer a straight and clear condemnation of anti-Jewish bigotry.

With some students worrying more about deportation, the pressure on campuses to declare themselves safe spaces is intensifying. But not everyone is on board.

How to measure the impact of a one-day event that highlights the role of immigrant labor?

The president announced his nominee for US secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta. He declared that he inherited "a mess." And he repeatedly blocked and attacked the reporters in the room with him.

When news that Daniel Ramirez Medina was detained in Seattle became public this week, a shiver went up the spines of hundreds of thousands of people. Juan Escalante says the fear is really — but it's time to prepare.

Women are banned from attending soccer matches in Iran. But eight women in Tehran attempted to slip through disguised as men.

As news organizations continue to report new information on the Trump administration's ties to Russia, Donald Trump has taken aim at intelligence agencies that seem to be the source of information about these ties.

Race and money — are those the two things that matter most in American politics?

The Louisiana coast is losing ground in the battle against rising seas. So, the state has been working on a master plan to shore up the coast and protect homes with wetlands restoration and higher levees.

Political cartoonists are, by definition, irreverent. But the Michael Flynn affair and the Russian connection drama (complete with Presidential tweets) has satirists dropping their jaw.

A new report from the Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program at Harvard Law School says it isn't.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned after admitting he gave "incomplete information" to Vice President Mike Pence about conversations with Russia. His departure has left America's national security establishment in a state of confusion.

Meet the "sleeping bag councilwoman" who camped out for an entire year to protest the relocation of a US military base on the island of Okinawa.

Some Russian lawmakers say the resignation of US President Donald Trump's national security adviser suggests there are efforts behind the scenes to undermine Russian-US relations. The Kremlin had no comment.

At one time, Kim Jong-nam was thought to be the natural successor to his father, North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader,’ Kim Jong-il. Now, the younger Kim is dead. And experts suspect that his death might have been a political assassination ordered by his own half-brother, the current supreme leader — Kim Jong-un.