Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

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...
Morgan Winsor, Nadine El-Bawab, Ivan Pereira, Meredith Deliso, Kevin Shalvey, Bill Hutchinson and Patricio Chile, ABC News 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...
Yuriy Zaliznyak and Ellie Kaufman, ABC News 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 ...
Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News 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...
ABC News Feb 13, 2023

Camilla, the queen consort, tests positive for COVID
TOBY MELVILLE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Camilla, the Queen Consort, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Buckingham Palace. King Charles' wife had been forced to postpone a visit ...
Zoe Magee and Katie Kindelan, ABC News Feb 13, 2023

China accuses US of flying spy balloons into its airspace
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Feb. 5, 2023, after it was shot down. -- Department of Defense...
Britt Clennett, Karson Yiu and Morgan Winsor, ABC News Feb 13, 2023

Russian defects Wagner mercenary group, says it's committing war crimes in Ukraine
pop_jop/Getty Images(OSLO, Norway) -- Andrey Medvedev is tense. He arrives unsmiling. Sitting in a hotel lobby in central Oslo, he anxiously eyes a man walking past the bar, asking why he's looking at...
Patrick Reevell, ABC News Feb 13, 2023

US surveillance data crucial for Ukraine, top commander says
Tatsiana Kalasouskaya / EyeEm(NORTHERN UKRAINE) -- Lt. Gen. Serhiy Nayev, one of the most senior commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, believes that the data surveillance the United States has col...
Tom Soufi Burridge, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, Dragana Jovanovic, and Alessandro Pavone, ABC News Feb 12, 2023

High-altitude object shot down over northern Canada, temporarily closing Montana airspace
Omar Marques/Getty Images(TORONTO) -- A high-altitude object tracked over northern Canada has been shot down over the Yukon, officials said. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he ordered the ...
ABC Audio Feb 11, 2023

100 cheetahs sent to India from South Africa in attempt to repopulate the species
Courtesy Cheetah Conservation Fund(NEW YORK) -- Some 70 years after humans drove cheetahs to extinction in India, the country now seeks to bring them back. In efforts to reestablish a population, Sout...
Anthony Trotter, ABC News Feb 11, 2023
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