Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
215 bodies discovered at former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada
David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the recent discovery of more than 200 bodies in the grounds of what was the country's largest Indig...
May 29, 2021
Jewish family donates kidney of Israeli man to Palestinian woman
ABC News(LOD, Israel) -- It's a story of hope -- and grace -- between two families after almost two weeks of fighting in the Middle East. On May 11, Ira Yehoshua's husband, Yigal Yehoshua, died 500 ya...
May 27, 2021
Biden addresses Ethiopia's Tigray crisis as famine looms, 'large-scale abuses' continue
omersukrugoksu/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- After months of ongoing fighting, reported atrocities, and hindered humanitarian aid, President Joe Biden has finally weighed in directly on the crisis in Ethiopia...
May 27, 2021
Blinken resets ties with Palestinians in 1st Mideast trip
Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP / Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After four years of President Donald Trump tilting U.S. policy toward Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken seems intent on a reset. In his ...
May 26, 2021
Tokyo Olympics sponsor joins calls for summer games to be canceled
Ryosei Watanabe/iStock(TOKYO) — One of Japan's largest newspapers, which also happens to be a sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics, has now added its voice to the growing chorus of opposition for holdi...
May 26, 2021
Biden calls for further investigation into origins of COVID-19, 'questions for China'
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he is asking his intelligence community to "redouble their efforts" and submit another report to him wit...
May 26, 2021
Prince William, Kate go land yachting as they return to university where they fell in love
Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage(ST. ANDREWS, Scotland) -- Happy anniversary Kate Middleton and Prince William! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s royal love story is straight out of a fairytale. P...
May 26, 2021
Mother of seized Belarusian blogger Roman Protasevich says he was tortured
NSA Digital Archive/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The mother of Roman Protasevich, the blogger seized by Belarus from the Ryanair flight it forcibly diverted to Minsk on Sunday, said she believes he has been to...
May 26, 2021
US citizen working for Hamas killed in Israeli air strike
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A U.S. national and his father who were working for Hamas as engineers, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza earlier this month, a source from the group c...
May 25, 2021
What is next for Gaza after the ceasefire?: Reporter's notebook
Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images(GAZA) -- Exactly 12 hours after militants in Gaza fired the last couple of pot shots into Israel before the ceasefire went into effect, we crossed a haphazard Ham...
May 25, 2021