Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Severe COVID-19 patients more likely to die in Africa than in any other region, study finds
da-kuk/iStock(LONDON) -- COVID-19 patients in Africa who become critically ill are more likely to die than those in any other region of the world, according to a new study. The report, published Thurs...
May 21, 2021
CBP cracks down on goods potentially sent from alleged Uighur internment camps
ABC News (NEW YORK) -- China's message to the international community is that its Xinjiang province is a "wonderful land." But for many who are part of its Turkic Muslim population, the majority of th...
May 21, 2021
Behind the uprisings among Palestinians with Israeli citizenship
pawel.gaul/iStock(LONDON) -- The Israeli government declared a state of emergency on May 12 in the Tel Aviv suburb of Lod after a sudden outburst of rioting by Israeli Arabs, as the hostilities betwee...
May 21, 2021
First US aid arrives in India amid COVID crisis
PRAKASH SINGH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As India faced a growing crisis with COVID-19 spreading rapidly through the country, the first U.S. relief to help with the pandemic has began to a...
Apr 30, 2021
North Korean defector group claims to have sent leaflets at border in defiance of new law
bedo/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) -- In defiance of new laws that ban sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets, an anti-North Korean activist group claimed it has launched balloons carrying leaflets and U.S. dol...
Apr 30, 2021
Afghans fear US withdrawal could stifle progress as Taliban wait in the shadows
KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) -- It's been almost two decades since the United States declared a war on terror, and the country is finally closing the chapter on its longest war. President Joe Biden ann...
Apr 30, 2021
Americans among 45 dead in Israel stampede
joseh51camera/iStock(JERUSALEM) -- Multiple Americans were among those killed and injured in a stampede in Israel that's killed dozens, the State Department said Friday. The State Department has not r...
Apr 29, 2021
Curtains come down on UK PM Boris Johnson over Downing Street redecoration
DZarzycka/iStock(LONDON) -- President Harry Truman installed the first White House bowling alley. As first lady, Hillary Clinton built a music room. The Obamas introduced a basketball court, later con...
Apr 29, 2021
Chernobyl captures imaginations, brings underground tourism 35 years after nuclear disaster
Chernobylexplorer(KYIV, Ukraine) -- For the guide who sneaks people into the Chernobyl "Exclusion Zone," the crucial moment is when you cross over the barbed wire fencing that marks its edge. "You don...
Apr 29, 2021
A 'complete collapse' of preventive health: How India's second COVID wave exploded
KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) -- India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation's health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the ...
Apr 29, 2021