Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Archaeologists announce discovery of Anglo-Saxon cemetery with bodies and treasures dating back 1,500 years
MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have announced a major historical discovery dating back to as early as the 6th century after finding ...
Jan 11, 2024
More than 100 prison guards held hostage in Ecuador amid state of emergency
Members of the Armed Forces frisk men during an operation to protect civil security in Quito, on Jan. 10, 2024. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 125 prison guards and 14 administr...
Jan 11, 2024
Iranian Navy seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
KeithBinns/Getty Images(LONDON) -- An oil tanker was seized by the Iranian Navy in the waters between Iran and Oman on Thursday, according to state media. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA published a...
Jan 11, 2024
Biden administration faces growing pressure to strike back at Iranian-backed Houthis
Yemen's Houthi loyalists lift their weapons as they take part in an armed parade for more than 20,000 members who have finished a military course, staged to show their willingness to battle any potent...
Jan 11, 2024
In grim milestone, 1% of Gaza Strip population killed since Israel-Hamas war began
Amir Levy/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started follow...
Jan 10, 2024
Gunmen storm Ecuador TV station after president declares state of emergency
An Ecuadorean police squad approach the premises of Ecuador's TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on Jan. 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ec...
Jan 10, 2024
US Navy and UK Royal Navy shoot down 18 Houthi drones and three missiles
KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Navy and the U.K.’s Royal Navy foiled a major Houthi attack Tuesday night in the Red Sea, shooting down 18 one-way drones and three missiles targe...
Jan 10, 2024
Blinken announces deal to launch UN assessment mission in northern Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz (2nd-R) in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 9, 2024, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East....
Jan 10, 2024
Man pretending to be Queen Elizabeth's footman, selling 'antler walking stick' that never belonged to her sentenced
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(LONDON) -- An internet seller who tricked eBay users into bidding for a walking stick that he falsely said belonged to Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced. Dru Marshall, ...
Jan 10, 2024
Dual US-Russian citizen arrested in Russia on drug charges, local officials say
amphotora/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 32-year-old dual U.S.-Russian citizen has been arrested in Russia on drug charges, local officials said. Robert Woodland was arrested on Jan. 5 and appeared in co...
Jan 09, 2024