Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Russia escalates false chemical weapons claims about US, Ukraine by bringing them to UN
Rıza Özel/ dia images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russia is doubling down on its false claims that the U.S. and Ukraine are developing chemical or biological weapons for use against invadi...
Mar 11, 2022
Hong Kong doubles down on 'Zero COVID' policy, as death rate soars to world’s highest
CGinspiration/Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- As much the rest of the world learns to live with COVID-19, the highly infectious omicron variant has finally broken through Hong Kong’s once-lauded defe...
Mar 11, 2022
What is the threat from a 'cornered' Putin as the Russia-Ukraine conflict drags on?
MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Long before the first shot was fired, diplomats the world over have been trying to find a way to broker some sort of peace between Ukraine ...
Mar 11, 2022
How two strangers came together to help African students in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The two women had never met in a real life, but through social media they found a common interest: helping Africans students stranded in Ukraine during the Rus...
Mar 11, 2022
Russian forces move within 9 miles of Kyiv's city center: Pentagon Ukraine update
Glowimages/Getty ImagesRussian forces move within 9 miles of Kyiv's city center: Pentagon Ukraine update Matt Seyler, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense officia...
Mar 10, 2022
History teacher remains in Mariupol, Ukraine, to care for children left behind
DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- A 33-year-old teacher remains in Ukraine's southeastern city, Mariupol, to care for children trapped there amid the conflict. The strategic port city is...
Mar 10, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: 'Small number' of UK soldiers join fight against orders
Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Z...
Mar 10, 2022
Mariupol children's hospital destroyed in targeted attack, Ukrainian officials say
Ayhan Altun/Getty Images(MARIUPOL, Ukraine) -- A children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, was destroyed Wednesday in what Ukrainian officials said was a targeted attack by Russian airstrikes, as the ...
Mar 09, 2022
As refugees, fighters and survivors, Ukrainian women document life in war
Getty Images/omersukrugoksu/Stock Photo(NEW YORK) -- When one Ukrainian woman woke up and answered a frantic call from her mother on the morning of Feb. 24 -- before the sun had even risen -- she...
Mar 09, 2022
What conservative Yoon Suk-yeol's win as South Korea's president means for US-North Korea relations
Getty Images/Chung Sung-Jun(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Yoon Suk-yeol, of the conservative People Power Party, won the presidential race in South Korea after a bitter nail-biting vote count overnight....
Mar 09, 2022
