Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Biden to announce 110 million vaccine doses shared worldwide as NGOs call for more
MarsBars/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Even as the delta variant is causing higher COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations across the United States, President Joe Biden will discuss his push to help get...
Aug 03, 2021
US to offer refugee status to Afghans at risk because of American ties amid growing Taliban threat
KeithBinns/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is expanding the group of Afghans who could be granted refugee status and flee to the United States to escape the growing threat of the T...
Aug 02, 2021
WATCH: Israel begins administering third COVID-19 boosters to vulnerable citizens
ozdigital/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Israel is now the first in the world to give a third booster COVID-19 vaccine shot to those over 60 and other vulnerable people as cases rise. The U.K. expected to roll o...
Aug 02, 2021
Mom speaks out about giving birth to 9 babies
(CASABLANCA, Morocco) -- "I feel very happy to carry my child," 26 year-old Halima Ciss told ABC News, while holding newborn Muhammad, one of the nine babies to beat the world record for most babies b...
Jul 30, 2021
Data suggests Russia's COVID-19 death toll is far higher than reported
Macky_CH/iStock(ST. PETERSBURG, Russia) -- At the start of June, St. Petersburg’s local administration stopped publishing information about how many COVID-19 patients had been hospitalized in th...
Jul 30, 2021
Sarah Ferguson speaks out on Duchess Meghan and why she would marry Prince Andrew 'all over again'
Maggie Rulli and Taylor Behrendt-Rhodes, ABC News(LONDON) -- Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has spent most of her adult life in the public spotlight, first as the wife of Prince Andrew and then ...
Jul 30, 2021
First Afghan interpreters to arrive in US as Blinken fails to reach deal in Kuwait
Flickr/U.S. Department of State (WASHINGTON) -- The first Afghans who worked for the U.S. military and diplomatic missions are being evacuated and will arrive in the U.S. late Thursday night or e...
Jul 29, 2021
Earth Overshoot Day marks date planet has used up resources for the year
richcarey/iStock(NEW YORK) — With 155 days left in 2021, humans have already surpassed what global resources can sustain in a single year, according to international sustainability organization ...
Jul 29, 2021
Blinken warns of 'deeply, deeply troubling' reports of atrocities in Afghanistan amid US withdrawal
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged Wednesday during a joint press conference in India that the situation in Afghanistan is headed in the wrong direct...
Jul 28, 2021
Tokyo reports record number of COVID-19 cases as Olympic games continue
hocus-focus/iStock(TOKYO) -- Tokyo reported a record number of 3,177 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday as the Olympic games remain underway. It's the second day in a row in which Japan's capital reported r...
Jul 28, 2021
