Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(RAMSTEIN-MIESENBACH, Germany) -- The 8-year old Afghan girl, housed at Ramstein Air Base without her parents, decided to share her dreams with the U.S. staff...

ekvals/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The outlook for the survival of polar bears appears precarious as scientists learn more about factors induced by climate change that are affecting the long-term health of th...

iStock/christophe_cerisier (AFGHANISTAN) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on the Taliban to allow chartered aircraft to depart Afghanistan with Americans and Afghans ready to b...

Guillaume Louyot/iStock(PARIS) -- France's long-awaited "trial of the century" began Wednesday in Paris as more than a dozen people tied to the November 2015 terror attacks -- the deadliest in the cou...

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- Twenty years after 9/11, the trial of the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, ...

iStock/MoreISO(MOSCOW) -- One of Belarus' top opposition figures, who helped lead massive protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko last year, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail b...

christophe_cerisier/iStock(NEW YORK) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport...

Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images(TOKYO) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not seek re-election as president of the country's Liberal Democratic Party, effectively ending his term as prime...

NCHANT/iStock(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) -- New Zealand is reeling from a knife-wielding rampage at a busy Auckland supermarket that left six fighting for their lives and the assailant dead. Authorities h...

David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Hugo Boss UK(LONDON) -- Prince Harry gave an impassioned speech at an awards ceremony last night, pleading with governments and pharmaceutical companies to...