Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Half-a-year into Russia's invasion, what a possible endgame in Ukraine could look like
Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesWednesday marks six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. In the months since Russia's blitzkrieg attack from the north and east, which was met with a stronger-than-expected ...
Aug 23, 2022
US service member arrested in Italy for fatal car crash
Riccardo Fabi/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE photo(PORCIA, Italy) -- A U.S. service member was arrested in Italy for allegedly striking and killing a teenage boy with her car while intoxicated, accor...
Aug 23, 2022
Putin revives Soviet-era title of 'Mothers Heroine'
Christophe Coat / EyeEm / Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin recently reinstated a Soviet-era award, giving women who have ten or more children a single payment of a million rubl...
Aug 22, 2022
Tourist minibus plunges off cliff in Peru killing 4, injuring 16 others
Roman Delorme / EyeEm / Getty Images(LONDON) -- A tourist bus fell off a cliff in Peru on Sunday night, killing four people and injuring 16, authorities said. The bus was traveling in the Abra M&aacut...
Aug 22, 2022
Prince William, Kate's children to attend new school outside of London
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A new era is beginning for Prince William and his family. Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have chosen to move from K...
Aug 22, 2022
Illegal weapons smuggling from US to Haiti surges: Officials
Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images(MIAMI) -- U.S. authorities in South Florida are stepping up efforts to crackdown on a recent surge in weapons smuggling to Haiti and the Caribbean, according to Home...
Aug 22, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: All reactors at power plant shut down for first time in history
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Be...
Aug 22, 2022
School lunch programs brace for higher costs, supply issues, less funding, staff shortages
ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and children's book author Kateryna Yehorushkina decided that she would write a book to help the country's children cope with the trauma of...
Aug 21, 2022
Severe European drought reveals sunken World War II warships on Danube River
Arpad Kurucz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LONDON) -- Europe’s scorching drought has revealed the hulks of dozens of German warships that became submerged during World War Two near Serb...
Aug 19, 2022
Napa Valley restaurant apologizes to South African musician Jonathan Butler after he said he was racially profiled
Erika Goldring/Getty Images(NAPA VALLEY, CA) -- Famed California restaurant Goose & Gander has apologized to South African musician Jonathan Kenneth Butler after an incident over the weekend in wh...
Aug 19, 2022