The legendary crooner Julio Iglesias had been accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking. But Spain’s highest court threw out the case late last week, brought by Dominican women who worked for the star in Honduras and the Bahamas. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides could hit 2 million by the spring. The Washington Post’s Francesca Ebel recently returned from reporting inside Russia. She tells The World’s Host Marco Werman the war is fraying the bonds that bind Russian society.

On Wednesday, police in Nigeria's largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous informal settlement that stretches out into the Lagos Lagoon. With over 300,000 estimated inhabitants, the settlement of DIY housing on stilts connected by canals is considered the largest of its kind in the country and was long home to some of Lagos' poorest. The World's Host Marco Werman learned more about the impact of the demolition from Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian environmental activist and architect.

It began as part of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement to stop the war in Gaza. But the "Board of Peace," a brainchild of US President Trump, has morphed into something with more grand ambitions, at least rhetorically. Foreign policy experts will applaud new and bold ideas for using American leverage to secure global peace. But they say it's difficult to see how Trump's scheme will achieve anything close to what the American president is talking about. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman catch you up on headlines in the news you may have missed.

The spiritual head of the Church of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, going back to St. Augustine in the year 597. All of the archbishops that followed were men, until today. The Most Reverend Sarah Mullally was formally confirmed at a ceremony held at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. She's now the highest ranking cleric for some 85 million Anglicans around the world. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman have the story.

The Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria have lost almost all of the territory they controlled in northern and eastern Syria to the central government. This is a major shift in the power dynamics in those parts of the country, which also include several detention facilities holding thousands of suspected ISIS members and their families. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

A court in the Netherlands this week sentence a man to 20 years imprisonment in one of Europe’s most significant human trafficking trials in history. Amanuel Walid was accused of running a vast network of trafficking, hostage-taking, extortion and sexual violence against migrants in Libya. They were held in detention camps and tortured until families in the Netherlands paid huge ransoms. Andrew Connelly reports from  Zwolle, in the Netherlands.

The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly jawbones, carry traits of both modern humans and primitive species such as Neanderthals. And they roughly match earlier findings in Northern Spain. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

When space debris enters Earth's atmosphere, some of it ends up at Point Nemo, a remote area of the Pacific Ocean with depths of around 13,000 feet. The World's Carolyn Beeler speaks with Moriba K. Jah, professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, about why we bury under the sea what was once in space.