Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Canada House speaker apologizes for praising Ukrainian veteran who fought for Nazis
DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Canada's House of Commons speaker apologized for praising a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi unit. During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's vis...
Sep 25, 2023
US border agency chief meets with authorities in Mexico over migrant surge
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) -- The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Sunday that the agency's top official has met with authorities in Mexico to work on ways to bet...
Sep 25, 2023
Molotov cocktails tossed at Cuban Embassy in Washington, minister says
Craig Lovell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., was "the target of a terrorist attack," when two Molotov cocktails were tossed at the building on Sunday night, accord...
Sep 25, 2023
Large explosion rocks warehouse as thousands of ethnic Armenians start to flee disputed enclave
ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- A large explosion has reportedly torn through a fuel store being used by ethnic Armenia refugees amidst their exodus from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-K...
Sep 25, 2023
Iran president's wife denies UN findings that protesters were killed in turmoil after Mahsa Amini's death
ABC News(TEHRAN) -- In a new interview, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi repeated claims by her country's officials that the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last fall was the result o...
Sep 24, 2023
Africa's white rhino population rebounds for 1st time in a decade, new figures show
Martin Harvey/Getty Images(LONDON) -- African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The n...
Sep 23, 2023
Canada-India relations strain over killing of Sikh separatist leader
EVAN VUCCI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The diplomatic breach between Canada and India over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver has widened as both countries expelled one of...
Sep 22, 2023
It's a kayak with a grenade launcher. And it could be a game-changer in Ukraine.
Courtesy of Adamant Verf(KYIV, Ukraine) -- In a quiet bay of the Dnipro River, a one-hour drive from Kyiv, a group of Ukrainian engineers and special forces soldiers tested what they believe can be a ...
Sep 22, 2023
Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dies at 98
Antonio Masiello/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the first in the country's history to be reelected to office, has died, according to the nation's press service AN...
Sep 22, 2023
Iranian president's wife: Prison time for hijab law violations is 'out of respect for women'
ABC News(LONDON) -- The wife of the president of Iran defended a law passed this week designed to impose harsher sentences on women who do not wear hijabs in public, comparing the rules to "dress code...
Sep 21, 2023