Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
North Korea to partially reopen doors to tourism for 1st time since COVID-19 pandemic
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- North Korea is set to partially reopen its doors to tourism later this year after being closed off since January 2020 at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemi...
Aug 16, 2024
Ukrainian soldiers, engineers add metal netting to US tanks and vehicles to protect against Russian drones
A U.S.-made Abrams tank is seen with a metal additions in this photo supplied by Ukraine’s Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front, which blurred the background to hide the location. -- Rinat Akhmeto...
Aug 16, 2024
Ukraine says it now controls over 80 Russian settlements, including town of Sudzha
Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukraine now controls over 80 Russian settlements, including the town of Sudzha, since launching its major incursion into th...
Aug 15, 2024
As a father was registering his twins' birth in Gaza, an airstrike killed the 3-day-olds and their mother at home
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images(LONDON and GAZA STRIP) -- When he left his home on Tuesday morning to get birth certificates for his newborn twins, Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan never imagined he would ...
Aug 15, 2024
Gaza death toll surpasses 40,000 in grim milestone, says Hamas-run Health Ministry
People stand by the tombs of a family members after corpses were unearthed from temporary graves at the al-Amal hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and handed over to their families for ...
Aug 15, 2024
Russian court sentences American Ksenia Karelina, former ballerina, to 12 years for treason
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ksenia Karelina, a dual American-Russian citizen, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in a Russian penal colony on treason charges, local media reported.Karelina ...
Aug 15, 2024
Nearly 200,000 Russians being evacuated after massive Ukrainian attack
Russian Emergencies Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Nearly 200,000 people are being evacuated following one of the largest Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, Russian officials...
Aug 14, 2024
On This Day, Aug. 14, 1971: The Who release 'Who’s Next'
On This Day, Aug. 14, 1971…English rockers The Who released their iconic album Who’s Next, featuring such future Who classics as “Baba O’Riley,” “Wo...
Aug 14, 2024
Sudan at 'breaking point' amid civil war as US-mediated cease-fire talks set to begin
Members of a 'joint security cell' made up of various military and security services affiliated with Sudan's army, brandish rifles as they take part in a parade in Gedaref city in the east of the war-...
Aug 14, 2024
Ukraine trying to push deeper into Russia, as advance appears slowed by Russian reinforcements
Ukrainian tank crew take a break while operating a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey/AFP v...
Aug 13, 2024