Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
UK team performs surgery to fix rhino's broken leg, an operation they say is world's 1st
Knowsley Safari Park(LONDON) -- A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-brea...
Sep 19, 2024
Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will cause more wildfires in the region.But for ...
Sep 19, 2024
Israeli businessman demanded $1 million to kill Netanyahu, other leaders, police say
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Israeli police and intelligence serv...
Sep 19, 2024
Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday's pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News)(LONDON) -- Israel launched a series of ...
Sep 19, 2024
'Spiders' on Mars? NASA scientists recreate mysterious Red Planet formations
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region. As the sun returns in the spring...
Sep 19, 2024
Kate Middleton returns to work with meeting at Windsor Castle
Catherine, Princess of Wales attends day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London. (Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Ima...
Sep 18, 2024
What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
Ambulances are being dispatched to the area in Beirut, Lebanon while security forces take precautions after at least eight people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of wireless commun...
Sep 18, 2024
20 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- At least 20 more people were killed and 450 ...
Sep 18, 2024
Nine dead, thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon: Health officials
KeithBinns/Getty Images(LONDON) -- At least nine people are dead and over 2,750 people were injured after pager devices owned by a large number of workers in various Hezbollah units and institutions e...
Sep 17, 2024
US expresses ‘grave’ concern as fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher escalates amid civil war
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The U.S. said it is "gravely concerned" following a "large-scale escalation" of fighting in El Fasher, capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, amid a civil war that h...
Sep 17, 2024