Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Joe Biden, second Catholic president, meets with Pope Francis amid US bishops' criticism
Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images(VATICAN CITY) -- As President Joe Biden embarked on only his second overseas trip, he started with a personally poignant audience with Pope Francis...
Oct 29, 2021
Facing court deadline, Prince Andrew set to respond to sexual assault complaint
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Britain's Prince Andrew faces a deadline Friday to file a response to a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him in New York by an alleged victim of deceased sex ...
Oct 29, 2021
Allies unsure of Biden's policies, clout as he takes world stage
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- As President Joe Biden jets off to Europe to meet with allies, some of the United States' closest partners are still wondering if America is t...
Oct 28, 2021
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has no health issues despite weight loss, South Korea says
MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has seemed to have lost 44 pounds in the past two years, according to South Korean lawmakers who were brief...
Oct 28, 2021
Iran will resume indirect talks with US to revive nuclear deal, top negotiator says
iStock(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Iran has agreed to restart negotiations over its nuclear program next month, its chief negotiator said Wednesday. Those talks, in which Iran and the U.S. have engaged thro...
Oct 27, 2021
Looted Benin Bronze statue returned to Nigeria in 'institutional first'
Jesus College, University of Cambridge(LONDON) -- A college at the University of Cambridge is set to return an artifact looted by British soldiers to Nigeria, in a move described as "the first in...
Oct 27, 2021
Siberia's permafrost melt is causing swamps, lakes, making land difficult to live on
iStock/malerapaso(YAKUTSK, Russia) -- Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough that local people used to play football on them. But today, ...
Oct 26, 2021
Queen Elizabeth to skip climate summit in Scotland as she recovers after hospitalization
Vladislav Zolotov/iStock(LONDON) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Scotland next week as planned as she continues to follow doctors' advice to rest. The queen had been scheduled to at...
Oct 26, 2021
Family of five in hiding from Taliban pleads for help getting out of Afghanistan
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- "It's like a living hell for us now," Zahra, 20, told ABC News on a phone call while hiding out in western Afghanistan, in a country she hardly even knows. "When I th...
Oct 26, 2021
US 'deeply alarmed' at reports of military takeover in Sudan, calls for PM's release
iStock/MarkRubens(CAIRO) -- After initially being put under house arrest by military forces Monday, Sudan's acting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife Muna Abdalla were "kidnapped" at dawn from...
Oct 25, 2021