Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
King Charles III approves four 'In Memoriam' stamps of Queen Elizabeth II
Royal Mail(LONDON) -- Royal Mail in the United Kingdom has revealed images of four new portrait stamps in memory of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. These are the first stamp images to be approved...
Sep 27, 2022
Four dead after tourist boat sinks near Galapagos Islands
Piccell/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Four people have died and two are missing after a tourist boat sunk near the Galápagos Islands on Sunday night, Santa Cruz officials confirmed to ABC News. Off...
Sep 27, 2022
Canada to lift all COVID-19 restrictions for travelers entering the country
Thana Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Canada is lifting all of its COVID-19-related entry restrictions, effective Saturday, government officials announced. Travelers, regardless if they're Canadi...
Sep 27, 2022
American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson dies on Manaslu
Kitti Boonnitrod/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson's body was found on Manaslu in Nepal on Wednesday, ABC News has learned. Nelson was on the eighth highest peak in the...
Sep 27, 2022
Vladimir Putin reportedly grants Russian citizenship to American whistleblower Edward Snowden
The Guardian via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly granted Russian citizenship to American whistleblower Edward Snowden in a decree signed on Monday, accordin...
Sep 26, 2022
NASA spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben(NEW YORK) -- NASA has successfully tested its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, which collided with an asteroid Monday night. Asteroid Dimorpho...
Sep 26, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia kidnaps Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant official
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image(NEW YORK) -- More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a st...
Sep 26, 2022
At least 17 killed in Russian school shooting
ThinkStock/Getty Images(IZHEVSK, Russia) -- At least 17 people, including 11 children, were killed after a man opened fire at a school in central Russia on Monday, officials said. Local authorities sa...
Sep 26, 2022
Ukrainian first lady's message to American people
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In July, three months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, first lady Olena Zelenska told ABC News that she hoped an end to the war was near. Four months later...
Sep 26, 2022
Controversy erupts over former Japanese prime minister's funeral
YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(TOKYO) -- Thousands of people are expected to gather at Tokyo's famed Budokan arena on Tuesday to pay their respects to slain former Japanese Prime Ministe...
Sep 26, 2022