Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
US Avenger an 'important boost' for Ukrainian air defense, top commander says
Oleksiy Pshemyskiy/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- U.S. Avenger air defense systems, which are mounted on Humvees and are highly mobile, are now being used to protect major Ukrainian cities and to protect Ukrai...
May 18, 2023
Turkish presidential election goes to runoff as 'no party could actually win in the first round'
Moe Zoyari/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ISTANBUL) -- Voters in Turkey will return to the polls soon as no candidate was able to receive 50% of voting in the first round of the critical presidential elec...
May 18, 2023
Kremlin reacts to CIA video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russians as spies
Central Intelligence Agency(WASHINGTON) -- The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by Russians, featuring a ...
May 17, 2023
9 migrants found, 41 still missing after kidnapping in Mexico
Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico) -- Nine migrants were found Tuesday by Mexican authorities after a group was kidnapped on its way to the U.S.-Mexico borde...
May 17, 2023
Two US Consulate staff members among four killed in convoy attack in Nigeria
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two staff members of the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria were among the four people killed by armed assailants when an American convoy was attacked on Tuesday, the S...
May 17, 2023
UK, France pledge military aid to Ukraine as Zelenskyy makes unannounced visit
Carl Court/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday for "substantive" talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said ahead of the meetin...
May 15, 2023
China sentences American citizen to life on spying charge
Rainer Puster / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An American citizen charged with spying in China has been sentenced to life in prison after it was revealed that he had been held for over two years. Su...
May 15, 2023
Italy’s government convenes talks amid skyrocketing pasta prices
Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images(ROME) -- Italy's government is on full alert following a national problem: skyrocketing Pasta prices. Italy's Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso...
May 13, 2023
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan granted two-week reprieve after arrest triggered violent protests
KeithBinns/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted two weeks of bail by Islamabad's high court Friday, one day after the Supreme Court ruled his arrest on corr...
May 12, 2023
Suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance faces extradition to US
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the Unit...
May 11, 2023
