Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Former Russian prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza talks about his confinement, hopes for a post-Putin era
Russian journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza addresses a press conference on August 2, 2024 in Bonn, Germany, one day after being released from Russia as political prisoner in one of the bigges...
Aug 21, 2024
Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, dies at age 117
In this image that was posted to social media, Maria Branyas is shown. (@MariaBranyas112/X)(NEW YORK) -- A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 ...
Aug 21, 2024
Drone attack launched on Moscow: Officials
Getty Images - STOCK/omersukrugoksu(MOSCOW) -- In what is one of the largest drone attacks since the Russia-Ukraine war began, Moscow officials said they shot down at least 12 drones on Wendesday.The ...
Aug 20, 2024
US citizens among Sicily superyacht missing as search continues
Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue operations with helicopters and ships to find missing people after after a yacht sank on Monday due to a storm 20 ...
Aug 20, 2024
WHO records 1,940 health care attacks in Ukraine since war with Russia began
Getty Images - STOCK/omersukrugoksu(KYIV, Ukraine) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it has confirmed 1,940 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the war with Russia began in Februa...
Aug 19, 2024
1 killed, 6 missing as superyacht sinks off Sicilian coast, Italian officials say
A Coast Guard aviator observes from the helicopter the Coast Guard ship Visalli during its usual controls to protect the coastal marine environment, pleasure boating, safety and protection of human li...
Aug 19, 2024
Ukraine destroys third key bridge, threatening to cut off Russian troops, amid incursion, Russian military bloggers say
A Ukrainian armoured vehicles burns after it was hit by a Russian drone near the Russian border on August 18th 2024, in Sumy Region, Ukraine. Ukrainian forces operating in Russia's Kursk Region have d...
Aug 18, 2024
Inside Israel's deadly Jenin raid, 40 hours in May that shook the West Bank refugee camp
Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Journalist Amr Manasra says he remembers the moment an iron column saved his life.It was a miracle, he said, when an Israeli sniper’s bullet wa...
Aug 17, 2024
Alleged Peruvian gang leader arrested by ICE in upstate New York
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A leader of a Peruvian gang who is wanted for 23 murders in Peru was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thur...
Aug 16, 2024
Inquiry launched at Belfast Zoo after worker allegedly locked in lion enclosure
Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The Belfast City Council says it has launched an investigation at Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland after a worker allegedly became locked in a lion e...
Aug 16, 2024