Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Tuangtong/iStock(NEW YORK) -- For decades, beginning in the 1800s, thousands of Indigenous peoples from Canada were taken from their homes and families by the Canadian government, shipped thousands of...

DNY59/iStock(HONG KONG) -- An American corporate lawyer convicted of assaulting a police officer in Hong Kong during a period of citywide unrest about 18 months ago is to be sentenced July 6. Samuel P...

nigelcarse/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Dozens of children repeat after their instructor's dance moves to K-pop group NCT Dream's latest song "Hot Sauce," as sweat drips from their foreheads. These c...

richcarey/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The mass-clearing of trees will be the doom of many forms of life on this planet. Forests are critical to the Earth's ecology. They capture and store carbon out of the at...

iStock/pakornkrit(HONG KONG) -- As tension runs high in Hong Kong, Thursday marked 24 years of the former British colony's return to China, and one year since Beijing imposed a sweeping national secur...

iStock/Nastco(NEW YORK) -- The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that it had turned over the sprawling Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to the Afghan government and also announced that it now expects the tot...

ESA/TwitterESA/Twitter(NEW YORK) -- While it may not be a traditional crêpe, it's as close to the real deal as a French astronaut can get in space. Thomas Pesquet, the first French commander of ...

Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Princes William and Harry, who have reportedly been estranged for over a year, made a rare appearance together Thursday to honor their mother, the l...

pawel.gaul/iStock(JERUSALEM) -- Israel may have a new prime minister but the departure of Benjamin Netanyahu does not appear to be changing the country’s tough stance against Iran. Naftali Benne...

Tim de Waele/Corbis via Getty Images(PARIS) -- After a four-day search, a woman was arrested Wednesday as part of the investigation into a large crash at the Tour de France earlier last week, accordin...