Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
New Titanic footage released from 1986 exploration of wreck
Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution(NEW YORK) -- Never-before-seen footage from the 1986 exploration of the site of the Titanic shipwreck was released Wednesday. The footage was captured by cameras i...
Feb 16, 2023
UN secretary-general warns of impact of sea level rise, could cause 'mass exodus' of populations
Xie E/Xinhua via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Billions of people are at "unthinkable" risk because of rising sea levels, according to the United Nations. Speaking at the United Nation's Security Council ...
Feb 15, 2023
Two teens charged in death of transgender TiKTok personality Brianna Ghey
Cheshire Police(WARRINGTON, U.K) -- Two teens have been charged in the death of Brianna Ghey, a transgender girl found dead in the English town of Warrington. Emergency services were called to a local...
Feb 15, 2023
How people survive for days under earthquake rubble as survivors are found in Turkey, Syria
Mustafa Yilmaz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and hundreds of powerful aftershocks struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, survivors were...
Feb 15, 2023
A women-led activist group in France is supporting a 'revolution' in Iran, 45 years after the Islamic Revolution
Anna Rabemanantsoa/ABC News(PARIS) -- “The revolution is getting organized,” said Maneli Mirkhan, a 41-year-old French-Iranian management and strategy consultant, “it is not very spo...
Feb 15, 2023
Queen Camilla to wear controversial Queen Mary's Crown at coronation
ALASTAIR GRANT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The exact crown Camilla, the queen consort, will wear at the coronation in May has finally been announced. Camilla, who will be crowned alongside he...
Feb 15, 2023
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin says war was ‘unleashed’ on Russia
Anton Petrus/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are fighting for co...
Feb 14, 2023
Ukrainian refugees compete in Canadian peewee hockey tournament while war rages back home
Courtesy of Sean Bérubé(NEW YORK) -- For a group of 18 Ukrainian boys, thoughts of being separated from family and their home country, which has now faced almost a year of brutal war com...
Feb 14, 2023
'It was a trap': Video shows American volunteer likely killed by guided missile in 'deliberate' Russian attack
frontlinedoctors.org(KYIV, Ukraine) -- The video is only about a second long but it captures the killing of American medic volunteer Pete Reed and a Ukrainian woman he was treating in Bakhmut, a city ...
Feb 13, 2023
Turkish officials arrest building developers following earthquake
Murat Saka/dia images via Getty Images(GAZIANTEP, Turkey) -- The political fallout from last week's massive earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border has already begun, according to experts. Over the we...
Feb 13, 2023
