Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Three South African Navy personnel killed in submarine incident
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Three South African Navy personnel have been pronounced dead, and one senior officer remains in critical condition, following a deadly incident at sea off the coast ...
Sep 21, 2023
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian missile strikes hit multiple Ukrainian cities
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russia has continued a nearly 19-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Recently, though, the Ukrainians have gone on a counteroffensive, fighting to recl...
Sep 21, 2023
'Humanity has opened the gates of hell,' UN Secretary-General says of climate urgency
Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered another speech critical of the failure to make progress on climate action. In the opening remark...
Sep 20, 2023
Zelenskyy avoids confrontation with Russian foreign minister in remarks before UN Security Council
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Volodymyr Zelenskyy avoided a potential face-off with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Ukrainian president's first in-person appearance be...
Sep 20, 2023
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it wasn't burnout that led her to step down
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After over five years as the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern surprised the world in January when she announced that she would step down and not s...
Sep 20, 2023
Azerbaijan says it's halting offensive on disputed Armenian enclave Nagorno-Karabakh
KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Azerbaijan has announced it is suspending its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, after ethnic Armenian authorities in the disputed enclave agreed to...
Sep 20, 2023
Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says
NASA(NEW YORK) -- An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly ...
Sep 20, 2023
Men targeted by Iranian regime as women protest for equal rights
KeithBinns/Getty Images(LONDON) -- When she hopped on a taxi in Tehran this past summer, Raha was not wearing a headscarf. Her open challenge to the mandatory hijab rule in place in Iran for the last ...
Sep 19, 2023
Moscow court declines to hear "WSJ" reporter Evan Gershkovich's appeal on Russian detention
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia appeared on Tuesday in Moscow City Court to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial de...
Sep 19, 2023
UN revises death toll from Libya floods amid chaotic response on the ground
Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The United Nations has revised its death toll from disastrous floods in eastern Libya after conflicting information from different government officials an...
Sep 19, 2023