Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Russia reports massive Ukraine drone attack on strategic port and logistics hub
In this handout photograph taken on Feb. 24, 2025 and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on Feb. 25, 2025, allied leaders visit an exhibition of the latest drones in Kyiv, Ukraine. H...
Feb 26, 2025
Pope's condition shows 'slight improvement,' Vatican says
Alberto Pizzoli via Getty Images(LONDON and ROME) -- Pope Francis's health condition has shown slight improvement in the last 24 hours, according to the Vatican.The slight renal insufficiency the...
Feb 26, 2025
Israel says it is conducting strikes in southern Syria
(LONDON) -- Israel confirmed it is conducting strikes in southern Syria, as the new Syrian government calls for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory."We will not allow southern ...
Feb 25, 2025
3 American women found dead at Belize beach resort: Police
STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images(BELIZE) -- Police in Belize are investigating after three young American women were found dead in their hotel room at a luxury beachfront resort last weekend.The women -- iden...
Feb 25, 2025
'Pain is everywhere': Palestinian woman sifts through rubble after returning to Gaza
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images(LONDON) -- When she left her home in Gaza City 16 months ago, Tala Herzallah didn't think she was seeing it for the last time.Now, walking in the rubble of what us...
Feb 25, 2025
The radical shift in US policy that shut Ukraine out amid talks to end war
Paula Bronstein/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his leadership team spent much of 2024 cautiously courting both sides of America's widening political divide -- well...
Feb 25, 2025
Ukraine parliament affirms no elections during wartime in rebuff to Trump
Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images(KYIV, UKRAINE) -- Ukraine's parliament has passed a resolution affirming the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president and confirming that elections are not...
Feb 25, 2025
Macron warns Trump to 'be careful' on Ukraine, fact-checks him at the White House
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- French President Emmanuel Macron used his visit to the U.S. to publicly push back on President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Ukr...
Feb 25, 2025
Pope Francis remains in 'critical but stable' condition in hospital, Vatican says
Tiziana FABI / AFP via Getty Images(ROME and LONDON) -- Pope Francis's condition remains "critical but stable," Vatican officials said in a brief update on Tuesday."There have been no acute respirator...
Feb 25, 2025
Poland scrambles military aircraft as Russian missiles target western Ukraine
Neil Milton/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(LONDON) -- NATO ally Poland scrambled "military aviation" in its airspace early Tuesday morning in response to Russian missile strikes in western U...
Feb 25, 2025