Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Iran will resume indirect talks with US to revive nuclear deal, top negotiator says
iStock(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Iran has agreed to restart negotiations over its nuclear program next month, its chief negotiator said Wednesday. Those talks, in which Iran and the U.S. have engaged thro...
Oct 27, 2021
Looted Benin Bronze statue returned to Nigeria in 'institutional first'
Jesus College, University of Cambridge(LONDON) -- A college at the University of Cambridge is set to return an artifact looted by British soldiers to Nigeria, in a move described as "the first in...
Oct 27, 2021
Siberia's permafrost melt is causing swamps, lakes, making land difficult to live on
iStock/malerapaso(YAKUTSK, Russia) -- Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough that local people used to play football on them. But today, ...
Oct 26, 2021
Queen Elizabeth to skip climate summit in Scotland as she recovers after hospitalization
Vladislav Zolotov/iStock(LONDON) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Scotland next week as planned as she continues to follow doctors' advice to rest. The queen had been scheduled to at...
Oct 26, 2021
Family of five in hiding from Taliban pleads for help getting out of Afghanistan
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- "It's like a living hell for us now," Zahra, 20, told ABC News on a phone call while hiding out in western Afghanistan, in a country she hardly even knows. "When I th...
Oct 26, 2021
US 'deeply alarmed' at reports of military takeover in Sudan, calls for PM's release
iStock/MarkRubens(CAIRO) -- After initially being put under house arrest by military forces Monday, Sudan's acting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife Muna Abdalla were "kidnapped" at dawn from...
Oct 25, 2021
Sixteen rescued from burning container ship off coast of Canada
(File photo) - SHansche/iStock(VICTORIA, British Columbia) -- Sixteen people have been evacuated from a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Canada, according to officials. A fire broke ou...
Oct 25, 2021
What to know about the Japanese royal family as Princess Mako prepares to bow out
baona/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Princess Mako, niece to Japan's enthroned emperor, Naruhito, is planning to leave the imperial family, moving out of her family's estate on Oct. 26 when her marriage to Fordh...
Oct 25, 2021
Facing rising COVID cases, UK government resists calls for new restrictions ahead
jamielawton/iStock(LONDON) -- Flanked by public health officials, the U.K. Health Secretary painted a bleak picture of the current state of the pandemic in Britain. "Cases are rising," Sajid Javid, to...
Oct 23, 2021
US cleans up Biden's 'commitment' to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion
Vacclav/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is again playing cleanup after President Joe Biden said the U.S. would come to Taiwan's defense in the event of an invasion by mainland China -- ...
Oct 22, 2021
