Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

sassy1902/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. intelligence community has launched a new panel of experts that brings together senior officers and outside medical and scientific experts to investigate ...

andrewmedina/iStock(NEW YORK) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee who spent nearly two decades at the notorious facility and thought he might not make it out alive spoke out after being released -- the ...

iStock/ssuni(NEW YORK) -- Nearly a year and a half after the pandemic forced Canada and the United States to close their borders, fully vaccinated Americans will have their chance to visit the Gr...

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Europe's devastating flood death toll rose to at least 183 on Sunday with hard-hit west Germany and Belgium reeling from fast-rising w...

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(LONDON) -- England, which has faced more than 14 months of lockdowns as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and waned, is set to fully reopen July 19, despite a rising caseload in one...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(MOSCOW) -- Trevor Reed, one of two American former Marines that U.S. officials say is being held hostage by Russia, has been transferred to a prison camp a few hundred miles fr...

ABC(PORT-AU-PRINCE) -- Mamyrah Prosper moved to the U.S. in 1998 with some of her family members. But while she came looking for opportunities, it’s Haiti that she calls home. The Africana studi...

KeithBinns/iStock(LONDON) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed in southern Afghanistan while covering clashes between the country's special forces and the Taliban. He w...

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- More than 100 people have been confirmed dead while many more remain unaccounted for amid catastrophic flooding across western Europe, offi...

Joel Carillet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Thousands of Cubans have been protesting food, vaccine and medicine shortages, in the one of the country's largest demonstrations in decades. Some residents went days...