Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Woman stuck upside-down between 2 boulders trying to retrieve her phone freed after 7 hours
Facebook / NSW Ambulance(LONDON) -- A woman in Australia got herself into a tight predicament when she dropped her phone and ended up getting stuck upside-down in between two boulders for seven hours ...
Oct 22, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at University of Minnesota
APRIL 2024: Demonstrators marched on the Northrop Mall before setting up tents on the lawn. A few hundred people gathered outside Coffman Memorial Union to call for a cease fire in Gaza before marchin...
Oct 22, 2024
Patients are 'trapped' in northern Gaza hospitals as IDF operations continue: MSF
(TEL AVIV, Israel and GAZA STRIP) -- Patients are "trapped" inside the last three operational hospitals in northern Gaza as Israeli forces continue to besiege the area, medical staff and international...
Oct 21, 2024
Lloyd Austin visits Ukraine as Zelensky warns of 'clear' North Korea threat
Omar Havana/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday morning for his third visit to the country since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022.Th...
Oct 21, 2024
Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israeli strike kills 3 journalists in Lebanon
Jalaa Marey via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Israeli forces continued their intense operations inside Gaza after Hamas leader and Oct. 7, 2023 attack mastermind Yahya Sinwar was killed in a firefight with ...
Oct 21, 2024
'Beyond horrific' conditions in northern Gaza as hunger soars and supplies dwindle, aid organizations warn
Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel and GAZA STRIP) -- The situation in northern Gaza is "beyond horrific" as people experience intense levels of hunger and overcrowded hospitals stru...
Oct 18, 2024
What to know about Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader
Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Yahya Sinwar, one of the key architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, emerged over the summer as the de facto leader of the terr...
Oct 17, 2024
Biden, Harris say Yahya Sinwar's death offers chance to end Israel-Hamas war
Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris described Thursday as a good day for the world after the death of Hama...
Oct 17, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza by Israeli forces, officials say
Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Thursday.Sinwar has been cred...
Oct 17, 2024
IDF 'checking the possibility' Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza
Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) The Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency said Thursday they are "checking the possibility" that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wa...
Oct 17, 2024