Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Korean beer company searches for 'real heroes' who cleaned up massive bottle spill
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Thousands of beer bottles cascading off a five-ton container truck seems like a disaster. But average citizens who came to the rescue are earning pra...
Jul 19, 2022
Ghana declares 1st ever outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg virus disease
Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ghana on Sunday declared its first ever outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease. Blood samples taken from two patients in the southern Ashanti region were sent for tes...
Jul 18, 2022
UK braces for record-high temperatures during summer heat wave
AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The U.K. is preparing for record-breaking temperatures this week, with unprecedented health warnings being issued as a national emergency has been declared. Temperature...
Jul 18, 2022
France, Spain and Portugal afflicted by heat, wildfires
Gian Marco Benedetto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- As Western Europe experiences a record-breaking heat wave, thousands of firefighters are having trouble containing forest fires in Franc...
Jul 17, 2022
Mexican drug kingpin wanted in killing of DEA agent captured: Sources
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/Stock(NEW YORK) -- Mexican drug kingpin Rafael Caro-Quintero, wanted in the 1985 killing of a U.S. anti-narcotics agent, has been detained in Mexico, multiple law enfor...
Jul 15, 2022
Brittney Griner's attorney presents doctor's letter in court, says she had permission to use cannabis
Stacy Revere/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Brittney Griner's attorney presented new evidence on the fourth day of her trial in Russia, where the WNBA star has been detained for nearly five months. Th...
Jul 15, 2022
Tanzania investigates deadly outbreak of mystery disease
Roland Magnusson/EyeEm/Getty Images(DAR ES SAALAM, Tanzania) -- Health officials are investigating a deadly outbreak of a mystery disease in southern Tanzania that has infected over a dozen people and...
Jul 15, 2022
Biden says he raised Khashoggi murder with Saudi crown prince
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images(JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia) -- President Joe Biden on Friday, after a much-criticized meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said he had raised the murder o...
Jul 15, 2022
Demand for artificial limbs surges in Ukraine
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(KYIV, Ukraine) -- One of Ukraine’s leading medical experts on developing prosthetic limbs for amputees says there has been a dramatic surge in d...
Jul 15, 2022
Families of Saudi mass execution fear Biden visit 'legitimizes' Saudi Crown Prince
Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) -- U.S. President Joe Biden has promised to bring up human rights concerns when he meets with Saudi leaders in Jeddah on Fr...
Jul 15, 2022
