Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

richcarey/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The mass-clearing of trees will be the doom of many forms of life on this planet. Forests are critical to the Earth's ecology. They capture and store carbon out of the at...

iStock/pakornkrit(HONG KONG) -- As tension runs high in Hong Kong, Thursday marked 24 years of the former British colony's return to China, and one year since Beijing imposed a sweeping national secur...

iStock/Nastco(NEW YORK) -- The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that it had turned over the sprawling Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to the Afghan government and also announced that it now expects the tot...

ESA/TwitterESA/Twitter(NEW YORK) -- While it may not be a traditional crêpe, it's as close to the real deal as a French astronaut can get in space. Thomas Pesquet, the first French commander of ...

Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Princes William and Harry, who have reportedly been estranged for over a year, made a rare appearance together Thursday to honor their mother, the l...

pawel.gaul/iStock(JERUSALEM) -- Israel may have a new prime minister but the departure of Benjamin Netanyahu does not appear to be changing the country’s tough stance against Iran. Naftali Benne...

Tim de Waele/Corbis via Getty Images(PARIS) -- After a four-day search, a woman was arrested Wednesday as part of the investigation into a large crash at the Tour de France earlier last week, accordin...

jonathanfilskov-photography/iStock(MOSCOW) -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin used his annual marathon call-in show to try to persuade Russians to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as the coun...

ABC News(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- This moment in history is not lost on 22-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jaida Thompson as she helps the U.S. military withdraw from Afghanistan, a place where American troops ...

KeithBinns(CHICAGO) -- The sister of the last American hostage being held by the Taliban made a desperate plea this week to President Joe Biden as the U.S. military completes its withdrawal from Afgha...