Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Reported COVID-19 infection levels nearly 6 times higher than last Memorial Day
Rick Mave/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading ...
May 31, 2022
Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee: Seven memorable moments from her 70-year reign
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Queen Elizabeth will be celebrated this week with what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime celebration to mark her Platinum Jubilee. The royal family and the...
May 31, 2022
How some in Afghanistan have reacted to the burqa mandate
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The burqa mandate is back in Afghanistan, and, with it, a wave of disappointment and distress taking over the lives of millions of people in the country...
May 30, 2022
Egypt uncovers 2,500-year-old coffins, bronze statues in ancient necropolis
FILE photo -AHMED HASAN/AFP via Getty Images(SAQQARA, Egypt) -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, the country announced on Mond...
May 30, 2022
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid zooms close to Earth
California Institute of Technology/NASA(NEW YORK) -- An asteroid -- the largest to get close to Earth this year -- tumbled past the planet Friday. According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Stud...
May 27, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian airborne forces suffer 'heavy casualties'
John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north,...
May 27, 2022
Duchess Meghan visits memorial in Texas after deadly school shooting
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) -- Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, traveled to Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, to pay tribute to the 19 students and two teachers killed at R...
May 26, 2022
Across the border from Uvalde, anger, sorrow, calls to action in Mexico after another US mass shooting
KeithBinns/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) -- In the hours and days after the horrifying school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, foreign governments around the world expressed their condolences to the American pe...
May 26, 2022
Students from Ukraine win awards at world's largest science fair
Society for Science (NEW YORK) -- Six students from Ukraine were among the finalists at this year's Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest global high school competi...
May 26, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia's airborne forces suffer 'heavy casualties,' UK says
Rick Mave/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading ...
May 26, 2022