Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Mystery behind bright green water in Venice Canal solved, officials say
Italian Firefighters (Vigili del Fuoco) / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Environmental officials in Italy said they have solved the mystery of what turned the waterways in the hi...
May 31, 2023
Chinese jet carries out 'aggressive' maneuver in front of US military plane, officials say
USAF(CHINA) -- A Chinese J-16 jet fighter flew directly in front of an American surveillance plane flying in international airspace over the South China Sea last Friday, forcing the U.S. Air Force pla...
May 30, 2023
Several miners feared stuck in Ghana gold mine
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Several artisanal miners are feared trapped in an underground gold mine shaft in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Several illegal miners have reportedly entered An...
May 30, 2023
Two Iranian journalists' trials begin over coverage of woman's death in police custody
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court on Tuesday opened the trial of Niloofar Hamedi, the first journalist in Iran who reported on Mahsa Amini's death in police cus...
May 30, 2023
Major drone strike hits residential area of Moscow in apparent first
Evgenii Bugubaev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Several drones struck Moscow early on Tuesday, damaging residential buildings in the Russian capital, the mayor said. The pre-dawn attack "c...
May 30, 2023
Joran van der Sloot, suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance, loses appeal; will be extradited Thursday
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, has lost his extradition appe...
May 29, 2023
Uganda's president signs anti-LGBTQ bill into law
Morgan Winsor, ABC News(LONDON) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills into law on Monday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, which was introduced in Ug...
May 29, 2023
At least 2 dead in strikes on Russian territory, officials say
Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Future Publishing via Getty Images(BELGOROD, Russia) -- At least two people have died in strikes on Russian territory as Russia reported more attacks on Saturday, with dron...
May 27, 2023
20-year-old US soldier dies from rollover accident in Kuwait
DOD/108th Public Affairs Detachment(KUWAIT CITY) -- An American soldier was killed in a non-combat rollover accident in Kuwait, U.S. officials said late Friday. Spc. Jayson Reed Haven, 20, of Aik...
May 27, 2023
How tiger conservation in India may be helping to mitigate climate change
Mayur Kotlikar/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The tiger conservation efforts in Asia have been so successful that they had an unintended -- and equally beneficial -- consequence of preventing further some ...
May 25, 2023