Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Departing plane's crew acted appropriately in harrowing incident with desperate Afghans: US military
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Multiple military reviews have found a cargo-plane crew acted appropriately and broke no rules in the course of a deadly incident during the chaotic U.S. withd...
Jun 14, 2022
Royals mark Garter Day as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew skip public events
Hugh Hastings - WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Members of Britain's royal family stepped out Monday for Garter Day, marking the first time the annual tradition has returned since the start of the co...
Jun 13, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: 2 US veterans who joined Ukrainian forces missing
Celestino Arce/NurPhoto 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 Belar...
Jun 13, 2022
Disappearances of journalist, researcher in Brazilian Amazon spark international outcry
EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- International outcry continues over the disappearances of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, who ha...
Jun 10, 2022
Biden's mounting nuclear threats from North Korea, Iran
South Korean Defense Ministry/Dong-A Daily via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- While the world's focus has been trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear saber-rattling over Ukraine, two other...
Jun 10, 2022
Bucha residents try to reclaim their homes amid war
SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images(BUCHA, Ukraine) -- Bucha, Ukraine is getting back to normal, but residents are still living with trauma from the war. ABC News correspondents returned to Bucha to ...
Jun 10, 2022
Vertebra of 98 million-year-old dinosaur discovered in Egypt's Western desert
Courtesy Hesham Sallam(NEW YORK) -- A fossil from a a carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 98 million years ago was unearthed by an Egyptian-led team of researchers in the country's Western desert. T...
Jun 10, 2022
Egypt will seek to recover antiquities seized from The Met in New York, official says
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(CAIRO) -- Egyptian officials said they plan to start legal proceedings to recover five Egyptian antiques seized from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as pa...
Jun 09, 2022
Over 80 feared dead in attack on Catholic church in Nigeria, sources say
Adewale Ogunyemi/Xinhua via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 80 people are feared to have died in Sunday's attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria, sources told ABC News on Wednesday. A source w...
Jun 09, 2022
Royal family member says Prince Louis was on 'sugar high' at Platinum Jubilee
Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) -- With all deference to Queen Elizabeth II, her great-grandson Prince Louis was the star of the show at her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Louis, 4, the youngest ch...
Jun 09, 2022