Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(NEW YORK) -- North Korean officials announced they test-fired long-range missiles this weekend. The "long-range cruise missiles" were launched on Saturday and Sunday and allege...

raisbeckfoto/iStock(SYDNEY) -- Australia's approach to the pandemic -- strict border policies, snap lockdowns and aggressive contact tracing -- saw the country, along with neighboring New Zealand, pra...

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Britain's Prince Andrew and his lawyers have refused multiple attempts to serve the beleaguered royal with notice of a sexual assault lawsuit filed against h...

iStock/narvikk(NORTH KOREA) -- North Korea hosted its 73rd anniversary parade late Wednesday going into early Thursday morning, with a display of soldiers in bright orange hazmat suits and gas masks m...

IStock/Trent Inness (AFGHANISTAN) -- For girls and young women accustomed to mountain climbing and physical fitness training six times a week, being confined in a crowded wedding hall near an airport ...

iStock/Trent Inness (KUWAIT CITY) -- The United States has not seen evidence that the Taliban’s newly formed government will be as inclusive as promised, and it appears to be "more of the same" ...

OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(RAMSTEIN-MIESENBACH, Germany) -- The 8-year old Afghan girl, housed at Ramstein Air Base without her parents, decided to share her dreams with the U.S. staff...

ekvals/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The outlook for the survival of polar bears appears precarious as scientists learn more about factors induced by climate change that are affecting the long-term health of th...

iStock/christophe_cerisier (AFGHANISTAN) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on the Taliban to allow chartered aircraft to depart Afghanistan with Americans and Afghans ready to b...

Guillaume Louyot/iStock(PARIS) -- France's long-awaited "trial of the century" began Wednesday in Paris as more than a dozen people tied to the November 2015 terror attacks -- the deadliest in the cou...