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​The Gen Z group led by Miraj Dhungana escalates their ongoing demonstrations in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Nov. 26, 2025.
Analysis

The kids are not alright

Youth unemployment is making headlines from China to Canada, with many countries’ rates at historic highs. The fallout is fueling Gen Z discontent, creating migration pressures, and threatening social unrest in nations around the globe.

Municipality workers remove debris from the streets after flooding in Sheikh Jalal district, Baghlan province, Afghanistan May 12, 2024.
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Devastating floods, COVID reporter released, Catalonia votes, Swiss contestant wins Eurovision

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?

America’s biggest adversaries, Russia and China, are hoping for a Trump win in the 2024 US election, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally
Sustainability

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally

The combined shocks of multiple crises, including the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, food insecurity, and inflation, have taken a massive toll on the 75 least developed economies, according to World Bank Group’s Deputy Chief Economist Ayhan Kose.

How can the world build back better public health after COVID?
Crisis Recovery

How can the world build back better public health after COVID?

Every year, over ten million people globally die from high blood pressure, more than all infectious diseases combined. Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control, is tackling this massive problem in public health, among many others, as CEO of Resolve to Save Lives.

Ian Explains: Is the world better today thanks to human progress?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Is the world better today thanks to human progress?

Our body clocks stop ticking at some point, but that’s not the same as reaching a destination, or achieving a goal. So how do we—as a community, as a country...as a world—define progress? What does “better” even look like?

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID
Crisis Recovery

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID

2 billion people are facing "catastrophic or impoverishing" health spending worldwide according to the World Health Organization. And governments in the Global South are taking on more and more debt at the expense of investment in health and social services.

A medical worker administers a nasal swab to a patient at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center
GZERO North

Hard Numbers: COVID hospitalizations, fiery moves, banking job cuts, traffic jams

21.6 & 7: Data from the CDC and Canada’s government show that, since last week, COVID-19 hospitalization rates have risen in the US and Canada by 21.6% and 7%, respectively.

medical professional administers a COVID-19 test
GZERO North

Eris on the rise ahead of predicted fall COVID wave

A new COVID subvariant, EG.5 or Eris, is on the rise in the US and Canada. The World Health Organization has classified it a variant of interest and is monitoring it in the run-up to autumn, when students head back to school and people spend more time indoors.

Aftermath of a Russian missile strike, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
Europe

Hard Numbers: Russia's deadly hit in central Ukraine, pandemic money vanishes, AI comes to Jesus, DRC refugee camp attacked, Russian birds on “strike”