The World: Latest Stories

Easter is one of the biggest holidays in Belgium. The country is the chocolate capital of the world. But this year, it feels strange to splurge on sweets.

The US is helping Europe on counterterrorism efforts, but it can only go so far, says a US security expert.

ISIS's European network of militants has proven to be more extensive and deep-rooted than security services expected. And new evidence shows that the architect behind that network was one man: Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

People in Yemen are exhausted by a year of war. But the prospect of an April 10 ceasefire is inspiring less optimism, and more cynicism. There have been many ceasefires since March 26, 2015, but few real pauses in the fighting, which has taken more than 3,000 civilian lives.

A young Yemeni man wants you to know how war changed his life. His two-minute audio recording is a heartbreaker.

Turkey has seen a wave of terror attacks like never before. But Turks refuse to let that be their status quo, and they're saying so publicly.

Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff has passed away. As part of the Dutch national team, he helped revolutionize soccer. Actually, he led the revolution.

He was trained as a psychiatrist, fancied himself a poet and was known for his flamboyant head of hair. Today he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Why was Belgium so slow in its efforts to find a suspected Paris bomber?

While America still has far to go in reducing racism, we've come a long way. Over almost a century of life, Betty Soskin has lived through segregation, the civil rights era and Black Lives Matter. As the nation's oldest park ranger, she reflects on how the needs of the nation during World War II helped speed social change — not just for women but also for African Americans.

One of the Brussels bombers might have been stopped, had Belgian security officials reacted to intelligence passed along by Turkish authorities.

Drought in India means Holi without water balloons and rain dances. One reporter, at least, prefers it that way.

Dallas may not have ever become a major city were it not for a the failed efforts of a French socialist dreamer.

The European Union is preparing to send thousands of asylum seekers back to Turkey. One of them is a man who worked with the US military in Iraq.

First her son was recruited. Then he left for Syria. When he was killed in the fighting there, this Belgian mother turned to parents in the same situation for solace.

America's infrastructure, its roads, bridges and more, is crumbling. It's something politicians of all stripes, Democrats and Republicans, agree on. But still nothing gets done. Blame the complex funding structure.

What if you never had to worry about your clothes fitting you in the future? What if your clothes were tailored exactly to your body.

When Fidel Castro ushered in the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, Soviet Russia fell in love with Cuba. And the romance that lasted decades.

Thursday marks 40 years since the military coup in Argentina that began the "dirty war" dictatorship. A Nobel Peace Prize winner says President Obama should have skipped this trip.

Belgian writer Ismaël Saidi, now a successful playwright, grew up in Schaerbeek, the same neighborhood where bomb-making materials were discovered after this week's attacks. His dream for a nation is one that grows together with education, a love of life and hope for the future.

If you looked back at the past 25 years of terrorism, in some 30 percent of cases you'd see siblings.

The calmness is striking on the faces of the suspected ISIS bombers of Brussels.

When news of the ISIS attacks on Brussels was heard in Paris, it seemed especially close. It was just last week when Salah Abdeslam, a key organizer of the Paris attacks in November, was captured in Brussels. We met several Parisians who observed a moment of silence Wednesday in front of City Hall in honor of the Belgian victims and their own.

President Barack Obama's speech to Cubans today featured echoes of Ronald Reagan's 1987 plea to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Leaders from the European Union said the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday were aimed at all of Europe. But there are questions about how the EU will respond in the long term.

Bomb attacks in Brussels, at the main airport and at a subway station, have left more than 30 dead and almost 200 wounded. Why is Europe in general and Belgium in particular having such a problem with terrorism?

It's different when a bomb goes off in a city you know.

Radio and TV Martí, a US government operation that has delivered news and information to Cuba since the Reagan Administration, is at a crossroads. Many argue that the Martis remain critical. Others say the broadcaster is a Cold War relic and are calling for its end.

Actor Jeff Daniels has made his mark on a number of films playing a complicated anti-hero with deep flaws. What makes him so good at it?

License plate readers scan plate numbers and then cross-reference them with a “hot list” of plates of wanted or stolen vehicles. The problem is that only a small fraction of the plates are on the wanted list; the rest belong to non-criminal, law-abiding people – people whose movements the government could now conceivably track.

Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday are brothers. Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, both Belgian nationals, had criminal records, according to Belgian officials Wednesday. At least 31 people were killed and 270 injured in the attacks at the city’s main airport and at a subway station in central Brussels. A manhunt is underway for a suspect who was recorded by a security camera alongside Ibrahim el-Bakraoui at the airport. Tuesday's violence was the deadliest terror attack in Europe since the Paris attacks in November.

There has been a lot of attention on President Obama's historic visit to Cuba. But we also want to talk about the Cubans who have come to the US — how they're treated in vastly different ways compared to many other Latino migrants.

Politics among Cuban Americans are not as simple as data makes them seem. These two voices from Miami represent the opinions that polls can't reflect.

“The repression needs to stop right now, in order for this country to move forward."

Whether in restaurants or in accounting, the Cuban economy is slowly creating opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Does contact foster political change? Depends who you ask.

President Barack Obama, on his historic visit to Cuba, laid a wreath at the tomb of legendary Cuban hero Jose Marti. Marti was a poet, author and nationalist, famed throughout Latin America. He died fighting Spanish imperial control. But he also warned against US influence.

Muslim high schoolers rallied with other students for a halal chicken lunch dish — and won. Now, the drumstick is a hit catching on elsewhere.

The US recently won a restraint of trade case against India that may limit that country's ability to develop its own solar industry. But this "victory" will set back the Obama administration's own climate change goals.

The Central Valley of California could still use more water, but there has been enough this winter to cause thousands of acres of irrigated almond orchards to burst into flower for a couple of weeks this past February. And with the blossoms came the beekeepers.

Art conservationists used science to figure out the original color of the walls in Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” was purple.

Peter Seligmann is running the Sustainable Coffee Challenge to prevent deforestation and change the way coffee is grown around the world.

The idea is to be able to divert an asteroid that might come too close to comfort — as well as to learn more about the universe around us.

Roberto Mendoza has been in the trenches of Tijuana's cultural evolution over the past few decades.

Steps from San Diego, a group of US military veterans band together to make new lives in Mexico and, for some, find ways back to the US.

Artist Ingrid Hernández is intently interested in how discarded American products wind up becoming part of structures in Mexico — and for good reason. Her house was originally built in Southern California.

Ram Advani ran a bookshop in Lucknow India for more than 60 years. For the past 20 of them, we were good friends.

A movement of students and young people in Brazil, backed by funding from the American Koch and Templeton foundations, is agitating for market reforms.

Here we go again. North Korea has sentenced an American citizen to a lengthy prison sentence. And the US government is pushing Pyongyang to release him immediately.