Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Bandits kidnap dozens of school children in Nigeria
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Armed bandits in Nigeria have kidnapped over 100 school children in Kuriga, north-western Nigeria, oaccording to officials.The bandits are reported to have storm...
Mar 08, 2024
Sweden officially joins NATO after delayed process, ending longstanding military neutrality
Alfie/Getty(NEW YORK) -- Sweden's arduous path to joining the NATO alliance came to a successful close Thursday, as the Swedish prime minister and foreign minister deposited the country's "instrument ...
Mar 07, 2024
Red panda discovered in luggage during Bangkok airport bust
Thailand Customs Dept./Facebook(LONDON) -- A red panda was among 87 animals seized by Thai customs agents after they were discovered in checked luggage at Thailand’s main international airport.T...
Mar 07, 2024
US State Department urges American citizens to leave Haiti
KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. State Department is encouraging American citizens to leave Haiti following an ongoing spate of gang violence.A series of coordinated gang attacks began ...
Mar 07, 2024
No Gaza cease-fire agreement likely before Ramadan as latest negotiations end
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A senior Egyptian official has told ABC News that the Hamas delegation has left Cairo, thereby ending cease-fire talks and making it unlikely that there will b...
Mar 07, 2024
Mother of two dies mysteriously while on flight back from Dominican Republic
Stefanie Smith in a photo with her brother Chris Volz. (Courtesy Chris Volz)(NEW YORK) -- Family and friends of an Indiana mother said they were shocked and stunned by her sudden death as she was aboa...
Mar 07, 2024
February marked Earth's ninth consecutive warmest month on record, according to new Copernicus report
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Planet Earth has now broken warmest-month records for nine months in a row, according to a new report by Copernicus, Europe's climate change service.Feb...
Mar 07, 2024
Houthi strike kills 3 on international cargo carrier as group continues shipping lane attacks: US
Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen killed three civilians aboard a Barbadian and Liberian cargo carrier on Wednesday, marking the group's first fatal str...
Mar 06, 2024
Hundreds of truckloads of aid for Gaza stuck as more lives lost to malnutrition, some aid organizations say
Ahmed Zaqout/Anadolu via Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- Hundreds of truckloads of aid have been stuck waiting to be distributed in Gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens amid the ongoing Israel-Ha...
Mar 06, 2024
Missile explodes near Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with Greek prime minister: Sources
Maksym Polishchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images(ODESA, Ua.) -- A missile exploded in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, just hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zel...
Mar 06, 2024