Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Gabon's coup leaders say ousted president is 'freed' and can travel on a medical trip
Malkolm M./Afrikimages Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Gabon's ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been released from house arrest a week after a group of mutinous soldier...
Morgan Winsor, Emma Ogao and Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News Sep 07, 2023

Ukraine’s first lady is 'afraid' the world is turning away from war
ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska is "afraid" the world's attention is turning away from the war, more than 18 months since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of her co...
Britt Clennett, Dragana Jovanovic, Natalia Kushnir, Fidel Pavlenko, Alessandro Pavone, Chris Bradley and Yuriy Boyko, ABC News Sep 06, 2023

Earth records the hottest three months ever on record, World Meteorological Organization says
SimpleImages/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The hottest three months on record have just been recorded on Earth, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The European-Union funded agency sai...
Jon Haworth, ABC News Sep 06, 2023

Three rescued from Coral Sea after multiple shark attacks damaged inflatable catamaran
Australian Maritime Safety Authority(NEW YORK) -- Three people were rescued from the Coral Sea after "multiple shark attacks" damaged their catamaran. Following an alert from a Russian-registered emer...
Jolie Lash, ABC News Sep 06, 2023

South African conservation NGO to release 2,000 rhinos into the wild
Gregory Sweeney/Getty Images(LONDON) -- South African Conservation Group African Parks has announced it is set to release 2,000 southern white rhinos into the wild in what is set to be one of Africa&r...
Emma Ogao, ABC News Sep 06, 2023

Five asteroids passing by Earth this week, three the size of planes, NASA says
NASA(NEW YORK) -- Five asteroids will fly past Earth beginning Wednesday, but aren't expected to threaten the planet, NASA said. Between Sept. 6 and Sept. 12, one asteroid the size of a house, three t...
Teddy Grant, ABC News Sep 06, 2023

Millions of dollars pledged as Africa's landmark climate summit enters day two
Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Dozens of world leaders and heads of state are gathered in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as the Africa Climate Summit 2023 -- the continent’s first-ev...
Emma Ogao, ABC News Sep 05, 2023

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expected to meet with Putin
Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The United States has "information" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expects to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia over arm...
Ben Gittleson and Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News Sep 05, 2023

Dinner plate-sized surgical tool discovered in woman’s abdomen 18 months after procedure
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A surgical tool “the size of a dinner plate” has been discovered inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after undergoing a caesarean se...
Jon Haworth, ABC News Sep 05, 2023

Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer remembers her 26 years after her death
Bettmann Archive/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Charles Spencer is remembering his sister, the late Princess Diana, 26 years after her death. In a post on X, Spencer shared a photo of him and Diana w...
Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News Sep 01, 2023
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