Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Woman fleeing Afghanistan gives birth on US Air Force plane
U.S. Air Force(NEW YORK) -- An Afghanistan woman fleeing the Taliban in Kabul went into labor aboard a United States Air Force plane evacuating people from the country. The woman, who was not named, w...
Aug 24, 2021
Josephine Baker receives one of France's highest honors 46 years after her death
Gaston Paris/Roger Viollet via Getty Images(PARIS) -- France will pay tribute to American-born entertainer Josephine Baker, making her the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon, in the heart of...
Aug 24, 2021
Inside Kabul airport, lack of food and water, high heat, big crowds drive one family to leave
Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- On the fourth day of waiting, "Ahmad" had enough. He left Kabul airport, heading back through the Taliban checkpoints and bringin...
Aug 23, 2021
Afghanistan updates: Top Pentagon officials speak to war veterans: 'It was not in vain'
Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the count...
Aug 23, 2021
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says US will look for every way possible to get people to Kabul airport
Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) -- No one predicted that the Afghanistan government would collapse in 11 days, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in an exclusive interview w...
Aug 22, 2021
What is Shariah? And how have Afghan women fared under the Taliban?
RollingEarth/ Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Taliban, an extremist militant group, has taken over Afghanistan's capital as U.S. troops have withdrawn from much of the country. The group has said it wil...
Aug 22, 2021
Russia signals it's ready to engage with Taliban, experts say
iStock/Mordolff (KABUL, Afghanistan) -- As Western diplomats scrambled to Kabul airport while the Taliban overran the city last weekend, Russia's embassy there remained demonstratively open and announ...
Aug 21, 2021
Afghan translator ‘deeply hurt’ by US withdrawal, fears retribution against family
iStock/123ducu (AFGHANISTAN) -- Years ago, Naqibullah had assisted the U.S. Marine Corps as a translator in Afghanistan and has since started a new life in the U.S. However, his parents and siblings r...
Aug 21, 2021
Haiti's crises are 'never-ending cycle of PTSD': Reporter's notebook
iStock/ffikretow (HAITI) -- The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that just devastated Haiti feels like a bad dream on repeat. Imagine waking up to an earthquake just about a decade after another quake killed ...
Aug 21, 2021
Afghanistan updates: Avoid Kabul airport, US Embassy tells citizens
iStock/mbrand85 (KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Chaos has enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan's government's collapsed and the Taliban seized control, all but ending America's 20-year campaign as it began: unde...
Aug 21, 2021