Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
What Putin wants when he meets Biden this week
SERGEI ILYIN/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- When Russian President Vladimir Putin meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Switzerland, experts in Moscow say for all their differences, the t...
Jun 15, 2021
What to know about two former US Marines held by Russia ahead of Putin-Biden summit
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are meeting today in Geneva – and among the high-stakes topics expected to be discussed, the world awaits an a...
Jun 15, 2021
Was attempting Mount Everest worth the risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
Zzvet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Rumblings earlier this spring that COVID-19 had made it to base camp at Mount Everest prompted fears of the worst: an outbreak of the deadly respiratory virus among people al...
Jun 15, 2021
How is NATO updating its common defense pact to deal with global cyberattacks?
honglouwawa/iStock(BRUSSELS) -- President Joe Biden and leaders from the 30 countries that now make up NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, agreed at their summit in Brussels "that the impact...
Jun 14, 2021
Priceless Picasso painting on exhibit in a supermarket near the beer aisle
Michel MAKO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(ESSONNE, France) -- A Picasso painting is on display in an unlikely place -- a supermarket. The supermarket in Essonne, France, is hosting works from the Natio...
Jun 14, 2021
Biden calls NATO's common defense pact 'a sacred obligation' amid cyberattack
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(BRUSSELS) -- Wrapping up his first NATO summit since taking office, President Joe Biden said it was an "incredibly productive day" with American allies, whic...
Jun 14, 2021
Amid pandemic, 'Me Too' comes to Egypt
Emilie Richardson/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It began after Sabah Khodir said she saw a woman's social media post accusing a college student, Ahmed Bassam Zaki, of being a sexual predator and of blackmaili...
Jun 14, 2021
Canadian cop killed in line of duty after being run over by couple in stolen truck
Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police/Facebook(NEW YORK) -- A Canadian police officer has been killed in the line of duty after being run over during a traffic stop of a couple driving a stolen t...
Jun 14, 2021
Netanyahu ousted following Knesset vote
Amir Levy/Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- Benjamin Netanyahu has been ousted as Israel's prime minister and Naftali Bennet is now the country's new leader following Knesset's vote Sunday. The v...
Jun 13, 2021
Bidens meet privately with Queen Elizabeth II after royal salute, inspecting guards
Richard Pohle-WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Windsor Castle Sunday afternoon, where Queen Elizabeth II welcomed them on the dais in the cas...
Jun 13, 2021