Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Iceland hotel seeks photographer to capture northern lights
ansonmiao/iStock(HELLA, Iceland) -- Hotel Rangá in Iceland is looking for a photographer to chase the northern lights, also known as aurora borealis. This dream job consists of three weeks chas...
Jul 28, 2021
Experts warn of prolonged COVID-19 pandemic due to vaccine inequality
iStock/Ridofranz(LONDON, HONG KONG and JAKARTA) -- A perfect storm with the coronavirus appears to be brewing across the Asia-Pacific region: surges in the highly contagious delta variant combined wit...
Jul 28, 2021
U.K. to allow fully vaccinated travelers from U.S, E.U., without quarantine
lightkey/iStock(LONDON) -- Beginning next month, the United Kingdom will allow fully vaccinated U.S. citizens to enter the country without quarantining. In a statement, the U.K. Department for Transpo...
Jul 28, 2021
At least one killed, over a dozen injured in explosion at German chemicals site
fstop123/iStock(BERLIN) -- At least one person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in an explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in western Germany on Tuesday morning, ...
Jul 27, 2021
Blinken makes first trip to India amid heightened tensions with China
Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images(NEW DELHI) -- If this week is the Biden administration’s full-court press in Asia, then Secretary of State Antony Blinken is playing point guard with his first tri...
Jul 27, 2021
Socialist school teacher to be sworn in as Peru’s president on 200th independence anniversary
Kris Hoobaer/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A rural schoolteacher and son of illiterate campesinos from the Andean highlands is poised to be sworn in as Peru's president Wednesday, the same day the country will ...
Jul 27, 2021
US concludes combat mission in Iraq as Biden meets with Iraqi prime minister
200mm/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the U.S. is "not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission" in Iraq. The president, while meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mus...
Jul 26, 2021
Discontent over Fukushima nuclear disaster response casts shadow over Tokyo Olympics
DigitalGlobe via Getty Images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some 150 miles from Tokyo's Olympic venues, calendars that line the walls of empty classrooms remain frozen on a date more than a decade in ...
Jul 26, 2021
What to know about PHA biodegradable plastic and how it could help Southeast Asia
ABC News(SUWON, South Korea) -- South Korean conglomerate CJ Cheiljedang is jumping into the global market to begin mass production of PHA biodegradable plastic, or polyhydroxyalkanoates. PHA is ...
Jul 24, 2021
How colonial-era debt helped shape Haiti's poverty and political unrest
Pawel Gaul/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When Haiti won its independence nearly 200 years ago, it came at a hefty price -- an estimated $21 billion today. The country spent the next century paying off the ...
Jul 24, 2021
