Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
In South Korea, Pelosi vows support to denuclearize the North but avoids commenting on Taiwan, China
Young-Ho Lee / Sipa/ Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with her South Korean counterpart and other political leaders in...
Aug 04, 2022
Icelandic volcano erupts amid series of earthquakes
JEREMIE RICHARD/AFP via Getty Images(REYKJAVIK, Iceland) -- An Icelandic volcano has come back to life after a series of nearby earthquakes rumbled it awake, the Icelandic Met Office reported Wednesda...
Aug 03, 2022
Extreme flooding, drought is making risk management difficult and ineffective, researchers say
Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Risk management strategies for floods and drought may not reduce the effects of unprecedented extreme weather events as they become more fre...
Aug 03, 2022
As Iranian women are arrested for protesting against hijabs, some make 'forced confessions,' activist says
ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- When Sepideh Rashno appeared last month on Iranian state television to apologize to another woman for refusing to wear a hijab in pubic, longtime observers ...
Aug 03, 2022
Pelosi says US 'will not abandon' Taiwan as China orders live-fire drills
Handout/Getty Images(TAIPEI, Taiwan) -- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she and other members of a congressional delegation "came to Taiwan to make unequi...
Aug 03, 2022
Texas man detained in Russia for months due to 'political purposes': Congressman
Courtesy Carol Barnes(WASHINGTON) -- More than six months after Texas father David Barnes was arrested by Russian authorities, his family is calling on officials in Washington to do more to try to fac...
Aug 03, 2022
Passenger fined $1,846 for bringing McMuffins to Australia
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry(LONDON) -- A passenger flying from Bali, Indonesia, to Darwin, Australia, was fined 2,664 Australian dollars (about $1,846 U.S.)...
Aug 02, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touches down in Taiwan despite China's warnings
I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images(TAIPEI, Taiwan) -- U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday despite repeated warnings not to from mainland China, which cl...
Aug 02, 2022
Man charged with threatening Queen Elizabeth, possessing a weapon
Chris Jackson/Getty Images, FILE(LONDON) -- A man was charged with intending to injure or alarm Queen Elizabeth II following an incident on Christmas Day last year at Windsor Castle, the Metropolitan ...
Aug 02, 2022
Princess Charlotte joins Prince William, Kate at 2022 Commonwealth Games
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images(BIRMINGHAM, England) -- Prince William and Kate attended the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, bringing along Princess Charlotte on the royal outing. The Duke...
Aug 02, 2022