Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
At least one killed, over a dozen injured in explosion at German chemicals site
fstop123/iStock(BERLIN) -- At least one person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in an explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in western Germany on Tuesday morning, ...
Jul 27, 2021
Blinken makes first trip to India amid heightened tensions with China
Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images(NEW DELHI) -- If this week is the Biden administration’s full-court press in Asia, then Secretary of State Antony Blinken is playing point guard with his first tri...
Jul 27, 2021
Socialist school teacher to be sworn in as Peru’s president on 200th independence anniversary
Kris Hoobaer/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A rural schoolteacher and son of illiterate campesinos from the Andean highlands is poised to be sworn in as Peru's president Wednesday, the same day the country will ...
Jul 27, 2021
US concludes combat mission in Iraq as Biden meets with Iraqi prime minister
200mm/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the U.S. is "not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission" in Iraq. The president, while meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mus...
Jul 26, 2021
Discontent over Fukushima nuclear disaster response casts shadow over Tokyo Olympics
DigitalGlobe via Getty Images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some 150 miles from Tokyo's Olympic venues, calendars that line the walls of empty classrooms remain frozen on a date more than a decade in ...
Jul 26, 2021
What to know about PHA biodegradable plastic and how it could help Southeast Asia
ABC News(SUWON, South Korea) -- South Korean conglomerate CJ Cheiljedang is jumping into the global market to begin mass production of PHA biodegradable plastic, or polyhydroxyalkanoates. PHA is ...
Jul 24, 2021
How colonial-era debt helped shape Haiti's poverty and political unrest
Pawel Gaul/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When Haiti won its independence nearly 200 years ago, it came at a hefty price -- an estimated $21 billion today. The country spent the next century paying off the ...
Jul 24, 2021
Nigeria's men's team aims for Africa's 1st Olympic basketball medal
Ethan Miller/Getty Images(TOKYO) -- It was one of the most lopsided losses in Olympic basketball history: Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and Team USA thrashed the Nigerian men’s basketball team by...
Jul 23, 2021
US sanctions Cuba over crackdown on protests in 1st steps toward new policy
-Panya-/iStock(WASHINGTON) — In his first steps toward his own Cuba policy, President Joe Biden is sanctioning the Cuban defense minister and its special forces for the aggressive crackdowns on ...
Jul 22, 2021
Russia battered by deadly COVID 3rd wave
iStock/Eugene Nekrasov (RUSSIA) -- Russia is enduring a devastating third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, registering record numbers of daily virus deaths many days for the past month as the virus r...
Jul 22, 2021