Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. and Iran are holding indirect talks on Tuesday in what could be the first step toward reviving the 2015 deal that constrains Tehran's nuclear facilities...

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Tuesday that her country will open a travel bubble with Australia in less than two weeks. Quarantine-free travel be...

solarseven/iStock(GENEVA) -- The World Health Organization criticized Europe's sluggish vaccine rollout as "unacceptably slow" in a recent statement, pointing to the low rate of Europeans who have bee...

blueclue/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Jordan's government has said that a coup attempt centered on former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of the current monarch King Abdullah II, was foiled o...

KeithBinns/iStock(LONDON) -- India has seen "an alarming rate of growth of COVID-19 cases and deaths" in recent weeks, the prime minister's office said Sunday. More than 12.3 million people in India h...

Britus/iStock(LONDON) -- A group of people were arrested in Dubai on Saturday over widely-shared images that showed women posing naked on a high-rise balcony in the city, police said. Photographs and ...

Courtesy Karson Yiu(NEW YORK) -- More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, children the world over have adapted to a new normal that often has meant wearing masks in public, connecting with fami...

Liliboas/iStock(RIO DE JANEIRO) - In Brazil, the new epicenter of the world's COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are overflowing, health care workers are stretched beyond their limits and cemeteries operate...

Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty(CAIRO) - Nearly a century and a half after entering Egypt labeled as salted fish due to their obscurity, nearly two dozen Egyptian mummies were celebrated in a grand parad...

Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty(CAIRO) - Nearly a century and a half after entering Egypt labeled as salted fish due to their obscurity, nearly two dozen Egyptian mummies were celebrated in a grand parad...