Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
On the Belarusian border, a NATO military exercise is now a powerful 'show of force'
Shannon Crawford/ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The silence of the Polish countryside is shattered by the piercing rattle of heavy artillery fire. A smokescreen obscures the horizon, and suddenly, the soldier...
Mar 28, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: G-7 responds to Russia's demand for gas payment in rubles
SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a...
Mar 28, 2022
Blinken attends 'historic' Israeli, Arab summit amid Iran deal tensions, Palestinian opposition
JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(SDE BOKER, Israel) -- Out here in the Negev desert, the Israeli government says, history is being made. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is hosting for th...
Mar 28, 2022
More coral bleaching at Great Barrier Reef, Australia confirms
Glenn Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images(QUEENSLAND, Australia) -- One of the world's most cherished natural wonders -- the Great Barrier Reef -- has suffered a widespread sixth bleaching event, offic...
Mar 26, 2022
Scathing evaluation of Sweden's COVID response reveals 'failures' to control the virus
Cris Canton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A scathing review has been released evaluating the "failures" of the policies that guided Sweden's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The review, published in the...
Mar 24, 2022
Search goes on for 2nd black box in China Eastern Airlines crash
Wang Yizhao/China News Service via Getty Image(NEW YORK) -- The commercial passenger jet that crashed Monday in southern China plunged into a mountainside with such force it created a 66-foot deep cra...
Mar 24, 2022
Biden holds news conference following meeting with European leaders, Zelenskyy's plea
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(BRUSSELS) -- President Joe Biden took questions at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels after meeting with European leaders Thursday on Russia's i...
Mar 24, 2022
North Korea may have tested its biggest long-range missile yet in another foreign policy crisis for Biden
STR/AFP via Getty Images(PYONGYANG, North Korea) -- North Korea launched a long-range missile with its highest peak yet on Thursday, marking a full return to its dark days of saber-rattling and a crit...
Mar 24, 2022
Prince William describes 'profound sorrow' over slavery in Jamaica speech
Samir Hussein - Pool/WireImage(KINGSTON, Jamaica) -- Prince William delivered a speech Wednesday in Jamaica expressing his "profound sorrow" over the history of slavery, as he and his wife, Duchess Ka...
Mar 24, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: 'Don't even think' about moving in NATO territory: Biden
SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a...
Mar 24, 2022