Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
North Korea tests two missiles, one reportedly may have fallen on land
A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on July 1, 2024. -- Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images(SEOUL,...
Jul 01, 2024
At least 30 dead, more than 100 injured after multiple suicide bombings in Nigeria: Sources
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least 30 people are dead and more than 100 were left injured after multiple suicide bombings were carried out at various locations in Nigeria over the weeke...
Jul 01, 2024
Fueling Wimbledon: What it’s like to feed half-a-million people at the world’s most renowned tennis event
Spectators queue for a Strawberries and Cream vendor during day one of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2023 in London. (Patrick Smith/Getty Imag...
Jul 01, 2024
Several US military bases in Europe put on heightened state of alert, US officials say
Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed.The alert level of For...
Jun 30, 2024
Hurricane Beryl upgraded to Category 5
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a Category 5 and is being described as “potentially catastrophic,” the National Hurricane Center announced Monday night.Maximum s...
Jun 30, 2024
Mexico City residents, faced with water crisis, resort to drastic measures
ABC News(MEXICO CITY) -- Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world, yet it is running out of water. It's a slow-motion disaster decades in the making, caused by a litany of issues includin...
Jun 29, 2024
Dozens of sick, injured children medically evacuated from Gaza
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of sick and injured children have been evacuated from Gaza to seek medical treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Israel's Coordinatio...
Jun 28, 2024
Gaza aid piles up amid dispute over whether aid workers can carry radios, security gear
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- U.S. aid intended to help desperate Gaza residents has been sitting untouched on a beach in the war-torn strip because of a long-running dispute between the U.N. and ...
Jun 28, 2024
IDF soldiers say repeated warnings of Hamas activity prior to Oct. 7 attacks were ignored
IDF Observation unit soldiers monitor the Israel- Gaza border. -- IDF/ABC News(NAHAL OZ, Israel) -- It was a sisterhood built around service: there were birthdays away from home, costume parties, TikT...
Jun 28, 2024
Pentagon and USAID watchdogs launch reviews of US pier and humanitarian aid flow into Gaza
Palestinians are climbing onto trucks to grab aid that is being delivered into Gaza through a U.S.-built pier, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as see...
Jun 28, 2024