Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
World's second-largest tobacco company to pay over $600 million for violating sanctions against North Korea
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The world's second-largest tobacco company has agreed to pay what the Department of Justice is saying is "the single largest North Korean sancti...
Apr 25, 2023
Paul Whelan's sister describes moment she met eyes with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Elizabeth Whelan said she was "surprised" to meet the eyes of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on M...
Apr 25, 2023
First photos of evacuation of US embassy in Sudan released by US military
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Maria A. Olvera Tristán via U.S Navy(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military officials released two handout photos of the evacuation of the U.S. embassy staff from ...
Apr 25, 2023
As Sudan cease-fire announced, some Americans still struggling to escape
State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/ Public Domain(WASHINGTON) -- After intense negotiations, the Sudanese Armed Forces & Rapid Support Forces had agreed to implement a 72-hour cease-fire...
Apr 25, 2023
Sudan conflict sparks mass exodus of foreigners as locals remain trapped in crossfire
kdow/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Fighting in Sudan between forces loyal to two rival generals has triggered a mass exodus of foreigners, while locals struggle to escape. As of Tuesday evening, one America...
Apr 24, 2023
US embassy staff in Sudan evacuated in 'fast and clean' operation amid fighting
ABC News(KHARTOUM, Sudan) -- Under pitch black conditions and amid fighting, U.S. military forces, including the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six, swooped into war-torn Sudan and evacuated the American emba...
Apr 23, 2023
'We are holding on': Scars of war visible near the front in eastern Ukraine
ABC News(KOSTYANTYNIVKA, UKRAINE) -- Alina Ivanchenko and her 9-year-old daughter, Zlata, waited as long as they could before leaving the city of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine. Preparing to leave ...
Apr 23, 2023
Thieves steal $14.8 million in gold, goods from Toronto airport
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(TORONTO) -- Authorities are looking for about $14.77 million (20 million Canadian dollars) worth of gold and other high-value goods that were stolen from a holding cargo fac...
Apr 21, 2023
'Extinct' lion spotted in Chad's Sena Oura National Park after almost 20 years
Wildlife Conservation Society/Government of Chad(LONDON) -- A lion has been spotted in Chad's Sena Oura National Park for the first time in almost two decades. A team of conservationists from the Chad...
Apr 21, 2023
Newly released photo shows Queen Elizabeth II with her grandkids, great-grandkids
Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Members of Britain's royal family are honoring the late Queen Elizabeth II on what would have been her 97th birthday. Prince William and Kate, the pri...
Apr 21, 2023
