Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

JUNI KRISWANTO/AFP via Getty Images(LUMAJANG REGENCY, Indonesia) -- Several villages surrounding Mount Semeru, Indonesia's tallest volcano, have been blanketed in ash and soot following its latest eru...

Contributor#072019/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women in Iran will still be required to wear the hijab under Islamic Republic law, even if the country's government decides to abolish the religious police...

Candles light a classical music concert in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, an event where there were no empty seats. - ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- At one school in Kyiv, students and teachers are continuing to...

Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Iranian authorities have been accused of stealing the bodies of slain protesters from hospitals and morgues in order to ...

Courtesy Beverly Spiker(NEW YORK) -- An American passenger on an Antarctic cruise died and four other guests were injured after their Viking ship was struck by a "rogue wave," officials said. The inci...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The founder of nonprofit organization Sistah Space drew international attention after she detailed racist comments from a British royal aide while attending a Buckingham Palace r...

Chris Jackson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After months of anticipation, the public now has its first glimpse of Prince Harry and Meghan's upcoming docuseries. Netflix on Thursday released a trailer for ...

Courtesy of The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities(FAYOUM, Egypt) -- A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, ab...

Archaeologists explore a dig site in the Omnogovi Province in Mongolia, where they discovered a new species of dinosaur, the Natovenator polydontus, in 2008. - Sungjin Lee and Yuong-Nam Lee(NEW YORK) ...

Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than nine months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a...