Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Hong Kong influencer's ex-husband, relatives face court in grisly murder case
PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- Four family members including the ex-husband of murdered Hong Kong socialite influencer Abby Choi appeared in court on Monday, in a horrific case that ha...
Feb 27, 2023
Death toll climbs to 62 in migrant smuggling boat wreck on Italian coast
Antonino D'Urso/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images(CUTRO, Italy) -- The death toll climbed to 62 on Monday after a human smuggling boat packed with migrants slammed into the rocks off the coast of...
Feb 26, 2023
Nigeria presidential election 2023: Who are the main candidates and what are the key issues?
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images/STOCK(MAIDUGURI, Nigeria) -- The world will watch with anticipation as Africa's largest democracy votes for a new leader on Saturday. Nigeria's 2023 presidential ele...
Feb 25, 2023
Killed, kidnapped and traumatized: Children under attack in Russia’s war against Ukraine
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When Russian tanks rolled into the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine nearly a year ago in a failed bid to take the capital, 14-year-old Dasha Pivtoratska and her family were driving thr...
Feb 24, 2023
Life in Russia, a year after the invasion
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A year ago, President Vladimir Putin plunged Russia into the war in Ukraine, pulling his country into a bloody military debacle and reigniting a g...
Feb 24, 2023
Ukraine war: Have sanctions on Russia worked? Gradually increasing weapons aid?
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As Russia's forces closed in on Ukraine a year ago, many anticipated its capital Kyiv would collapse in a matter of weeks, if not days. But while Washington ...
Feb 24, 2023
Withdrawal of international aid from Afghanistan disproportionately harms women and girls: NGO
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Many aid organizations withdrew their funding to Afghanistan after the Taliban implemented several regressive policies on Afghan women's human rights in the fi...
Feb 24, 2023
Tens of thousands dead in first year of Russia-Ukraine war, but true toll remains elusive
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his Jan. 5 nighttime address from Kyiv that he would speak directly to the Russian people. The war in Ukrai...
Feb 24, 2023
Ukraine's surprising resistance and the rise of its unlikely wartime hero
Presidency of Ukraine/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As tens of thousands of invading Russian troops and tanks thundered across his nation's border in February 2022, Ukrainian Pr...
Feb 23, 2023
After a year, is the US strategy to help Ukraine win or force a stalemate?
U.S. Marines(NEW YORK) -- One year ago, with Ukraine's borders surrounded by what seemed to be a superior military force, many U.S. officials and analysts predicted a swift Russian blitz to Kyiv. But ...
Feb 23, 2023
