Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, dual British-Iranian nationals detained in Iran for years, have been freed and are on a plane headed to the U....

FADEL SENNA/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, are p...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Nearly three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, more than three million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes seeking safety. And while the number of refug...

STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who crashed Russia’s state news broadcast Monday night to protest the war, was fined 30 thousand roubles, or around $280, ...

Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The mass execution of 81 people in one day by Saudi Arabia, condemned by activist groups as a “massacre,” has prompted fr...

FILE photo - Andrea Filigheddu/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Three journalists, including a filmmaker, a producer and a Fox News cameraperson, were killed covering the Russian invasion in Ukr...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With targets on the backs of her and her husband and from an undisclosed safe place, Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska sent out a desperate two-word plea to...

U.S. Navy photograph by Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Justin Yarborough(NEW YORK) -- Amid growing tensions and changing geopolitics in the Arctic, the U.S. Navy kicked off Ice Exercise (ICE...

pop_jop/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the Ukraine conflict, reports of civilian casualties have dominated the headlines as Russian troops siege cities around the country. Civilian buildings have been h...

Yurii Panchenko(NEW YORK) -- Yurii Panchenko, who fled Ukraine with his wife and only daughter hours after the first Russian missile exploded near his house, has begun raising funds through his Ukrain...