Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Administering abortion from abroad in Post-Roe America
fstop123/Getty Images(LONDON) -- When Roe v. Wade was overturned in June, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician who has made a reputation for providing abortion services overseas in countries that r...
Jul 29, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Blinken recounts ‘frank’ conversation with Lavrov
Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading fro...
Jul 29, 2022
Trevor Reed 'cautiously optimistic' about proposal to free Griner and Whelan from Russia
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Trevor Reed, a former Marine from Texas who served nearly three years in a Russian prison before he was freed in a prison swap this spring, said he is "cautiously optimistic" tha...
Jul 28, 2022
Niece of slain Palestinian journalist speaks out on aunt's killing
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The family of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in May while on assignment covering an Israeli military raid in...
Jul 28, 2022
White House went public with Griner, Whelan offer to reassure Americans; Russia says no deal yet
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration's unusual decision to publicize its offer to Russia to free Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan -- the basketball star and former Marin...
Jul 28, 2022
Rare pink diamond unearthed in Angola may be largest found in 300 years
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A rare pink diamond has been unearthed in Angola and is claimed to be one of the largest ever recovered in the world. The 170-carat precious stone, called the "L...
Jul 28, 2022
Who is Viktor Bout, the convicted arms dealer held in a US prison?
Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Shortly after U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers finally arrested him in a hotel in Thailand in 2008, Viktor Bout turned to one of the agents...
Jul 28, 2022
Families of US citizens held abroad call for Biden administration to do more
Courtesy Li family (NEW YORK) -- In September 2016, Kai Li stepped off a plane from the United States to his native China to visit relatives and attend a memorial for his late mother. He never returne...
Jul 28, 2022
US has put 'substantial proposal on the table' to get Griner, Whelan out of Russia
ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In a sharp reversal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that he will hold a call with Russia's Foreign Minister Ser...
Jul 27, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Blinken, Lavrov to speak for 1st time since war began
Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading fro...
Jul 27, 2022
