Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
At least 120 dead in crowd crush during Halloween festivities in Seoul: Officials
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- At least 120 people are dead and 100 are injured after being crushed in a crowd during Halloween festivities in Seoul, officials in South Korea ...
Oct 29, 2022
Ukraine war expected to accelerate clean energy transition, new report finds
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The war in Ukraine is reshaping the global energy landscape and is expected to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels as countries scramble for alterna...
Oct 28, 2022
Prince Harry’s memoir "Spare" to be released Jan. 10, 2023
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Prince Harry’s memoir will hit bookstores Jan. 10, 2023, Penguin Random House says. The news, which leaked earlier on Wednesday by publishing...
Oct 27, 2022
Explorer's camera from 1930s found on glacier in Yukon territory
Stefan Wackerhagen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In 1937, American explorer Bradford Washburn abandoned a cache of heavy equipment, including cameras, while attempting to climb Mount Lucania in the Saint ...
Oct 27, 2022
US says Russia's 'dirty bomb' claims are pretext for escalation in Ukraine
Wolfgang Deuter/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials are flatly rejecting as false repeated Russian claims being made to senior western officials that Ukraine is preparing to use a radioactive "...
Oct 24, 2022
Rishi Sunak chosen to be new British prime minister
ABC News(LONDON) -- Rishi Sunak has been chosen as the new U.K. prime minister less than a week after Liz Truss stepped down from the position after just six weeks in office. Sunak was chief secretary...
Oct 24, 2022
Top Ukrainian general discusses war against Russia, Putin's nuclear threat: Exclusive
ABC News(KHARKIV, Ukraine) -- The commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine is real and that the West "should be ...
Oct 24, 2022
Satellite photos reveal fortification plans in Russia-occupied Ukraine: Analysts
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- As it looks ahead to a decisive winter, Russia is constructing a massive fortification in the eastern Ukrainian territory it occupies, according to satellite ima...
Oct 24, 2022
'We are and should be worried' of Putin's nuclear threat, Ukrainian general says: Exclusive
ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces General Oleksandr Syrskiy, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell, said the world sh...
Oct 23, 2022
Here's likely reason why Vladimir Putin imposed martial law in Ukraine: Analysis
Contributor/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Vladimir Putin's declaration of martial law on Wednesday officially imposed it only in four occupied regions of Ukraine. But many experts said in r...
Oct 22, 2022
