Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
One of the world's last cities with a mask mandate plans to drop it
Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- Hong Kong is ending its mask mandate Wednesday, becoming one of the world's last cities to drop rules demanding face coverings. In a press conf...
Feb 28, 2023
New mosquito raises fear of year-round Malaria in Kenya
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Researchers from Kenya’s Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) have detected a new species of mosquito in the East African nation that has shown resistance to...
Feb 28, 2023
'Rare' Northern lights show on display for second night in a row in UK
Herman Prawiraharja / 500px / Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Stargazers in the U.K. who missed the first round of a rare Northern lights display will be treated to an encore performance. On Sunday ni...
Feb 27, 2023
Canada bans TikTok on government-issued devices
Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Canada banned TikTok on government-issued mobile devices on Monday over data security concerns, following a similar ban from the ...
Feb 27, 2023
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
