Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Mariupol residents face risk of cholera epidemic amid water, sanitation crisis
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine is facing the risk of a cholera epidemic amid the destruction of water supplies and sanitation during the Russian in...
Jun 09, 2022
What "Jurassic Park" series got right, and wrong, about science of dinosaurs
Image Source/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The final installment in the Jurassic Park series hits theaters Thursday, 29 years after the first movie stomped on the big screen. The films show a world in whi...
Jun 09, 2022
UK authorizes charges against Harvey Weinstein for indecent assault
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The U.K. has authorized charges of indecent assault against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. He is fa...
Jun 08, 2022
One teacher dead, 14 schoolchildren injured after car plows into crowd in Berlin, police say
Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images(BERLIN) -- A teacher was killed and 14 schoolchildren were injured when a car plowed into a crowd in a popular shopping district in Berlin on Wednesday ...
Jun 08, 2022
How climate change and warming waters are affecting the health of the oceans
Gary John Norman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Oceans do so much to sustain life on Earth, including bearing the brunt of global temperatures that have been steadily warming for decades. An IPCC special r...
Jun 08, 2022
Ukrainian grain may be leaving ports -- but on Russian ships, US official says
John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- There is evidence of Russian vessels departing "from near Ukraine with their cargo holds full of grain," a U.S. Department of State spokesperson told ABC News on M...
Jun 07, 2022
Gunmen disguised as congregants carried out attack on Catholic church in Nigeria, police say
Adewale Ogunyemi/Xinhua via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Some of the gunmen who attacked a church full of worshippers in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday were disguised as congregants, police said. Dozens of...
Jun 07, 2022
Prince Harry, Meghan release new photo of daughter Lilibet
Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Prince Harry and Meghan, duchess of Sussex, have released a new photo of their daughter, Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. The photo shows a ...
Jun 07, 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins 'no-confidence' vote
Alberto Pezzali-WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a "no-confidence" vote on Monday evening, with Conservative lawmakers voting in favor of his leadership by a marg...
Jun 06, 2022
Mexico's president snubs US-hosted summit over invitation list, distracting from Biden's agenda
PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mexico's president has announced that he will not travel to the U.S. this week to attend the Summit of the Americas -- another snub that has distracted fr...
Jun 06, 2022