Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia-Ukraine live updates: UN adviser warns war is worsening tensions elsewhere
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation” into Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with troops crossing the border...
Apr 06, 2022
Trevor Reed’s parents say hope diminishing for son's release from Russia
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It's been three years since Joey and Paula Reed have seen their son Trevor, a former Marine currently held in a Russian prison, and now they're afraid the ong...
Apr 06, 2022
Polar bear inbreeding and bird 'divorces': Ways climate change is affecting animal species
Paul Souders/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The world's biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns. And while that "doom and glo...
Apr 06, 2022
LGBTQ refugees fleeing Ukraine fear persecution, death
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The flashlights of the Ukrainian army followed Zi Faámelu, a transgender woman from Ukraine, as she walked through a swamp and hid from the military while crossing the Rom...
Apr 05, 2022
Germany shuts down world's largest darknet market with US help
seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Getty Images(BERLIN) -- German authorities took down the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the darknet with the help of U.S. law enforcement agencies, they said. Hydr...
Apr 05, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: 'Women were raped and killed in front of their children'
Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing to have a tough time pushing through Ukraine due to Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and backed by ...
Apr 05, 2022
Russian oligarch's yacht seized by DOJ's 'KleptoCapture' task force
Thinkstock/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A yacht that belongs to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg has been seized in Marina Real in the Spanish port of Palma de Mallorca, according to court documents un...
Apr 05, 2022
'Sickening' atrocities in Bucha, nearly 70% of Russian troops near Kyiv have withdrawn: Pentagon update Day 40
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what...
Apr 04, 2022
Emissions must peak by 2025 to prevent disastrous climate change effects: UN report
Thatree Thitivongvaroon/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the world pushes to decrease its reliance on oil, especially amid the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations...
Apr 04, 2022
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam won't seek second term
VINCENT YU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- Hong Kong’s divisive leader, Carrie Lam, announced on Monday that she will not run for a second five-year term, ending her 42-year political ca...
Apr 04, 2022