Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The cost of direct damage to Ukraine's infrastructure amid Russia's ongoing invasion has reached almost an estimated $63 billion, ...

Shannon Crawford/ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The silence of the Polish countryside is shattered by the piercing rattle of heavy artillery fire. A smokescreen obscures the horizon, and suddenly, the soldier...

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a...

JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(SDE BOKER, Israel) -- Out here in the Negev desert, the Israeli government says, history is being made. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is hosting for th...

Glenn Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images(QUEENSLAND, Australia) -- One of the world's most cherished natural wonders -- the Great Barrier Reef -- has suffered a widespread sixth bleaching event, offic...

Cris Canton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A scathing review has been released evaluating the "failures" of the policies that guided Sweden's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The review, published in the...

Wang Yizhao/China News Service via Getty Image(NEW YORK) -- The commercial passenger jet that crashed Monday in southern China plunged into a mountainside with such force it created a 66-foot deep cra...

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(BRUSSELS) -- President Joe Biden took questions at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels after meeting with European leaders Thursday on Russia's i...

STR/AFP via Getty Images(PYONGYANG, North Korea) -- North Korea launched a long-range missile with its highest peak yet on Thursday, marking a full return to its dark days of saber-rattling and a crit...

Samir Hussein - Pool/WireImage(KINGSTON, Jamaica) -- Prince William delivered a speech Wednesday in Jamaica expressing his "profound sorrow" over the history of slavery, as he and his wife, Duchess Ka...