Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
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
How the Russia-Ukraine conflict became a cultural war
ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- In the basement of the Syayvo book store in Kyiv, hundreds of Russian language books stand piled, waiting to be pulped. The books -- ranging from everything between the clas...
Feb 23, 2023
Eight million refugees have fled Ukraine after a year of fighting, UN data shows
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 8 million refugees from Ukraine have been recorded across Europe as of Tuesday, nearly one year since Russia invaded, according to the U.N. refugee...
Feb 22, 2023
Russia-Ukraine war: Key events in the year since Russia invaded Ukraine
Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Feb. 21, 2022, that he had recognized two Russian-backed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk a...
Feb 22, 2023
A year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there's no end in sight. Here’s how we got here.
pop_jop/Getty Images(LONDON) -- As tens of thousands of Russian troops lined up along Ukraine's eastern and northern borders for "military exercises" last February, some international observers warned...
Feb 22, 2023
Mexico's former top cop convicted of taking payoffs to shield drug cartels
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Genaro Garcia Luna, Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, of engagin...
Feb 22, 2023
Biden speaks in Poland after surprise trip to Ukraine
Omar Marques/Getty Images(WARSAW, Poland) -- President Joe Biden will address the world on Tuesday from Warsaw, Poland, just days ahead of the one-year mark of Russia's violent invasion of Ukrain...
Feb 21, 2023
