Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(CORNWALL) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his plan to buy an additional 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to distribute to lower-income count...

Igor Ilnitckii/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Amnesty International on Thursday officially branded China’s actions against its Turkic Muslim population as “crimes against humanity.” “Musl...

MichalLudwiczak/iStock(ROME) -- Pope Francis on Thursday rejected the resignation of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who asked to step down over the mishandling of sex abuse cases in Germany. Marx, who...

Karwai Tang/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- Prince Harry and Meghan, the duke and duchess of Sussex, are taking a stand against a report that they did not ask Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, for her perm...

Macky_CH/iStock(MOSCOW) -- A Russian court has outlawed the organizations of the opposition leader Alexey Navalny by labelling them "extremist" as the Kremlin moves to crush Navalny's movement followi...

Chesnot/Getty Images(PARIS) — Two men were arrested in France after one of them struck the French president in the face, the public prosecutor at the city of Valence told ABC News. The incident ...

Schroptschop/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Natural wonders around the world may be altered forever -- or even cease to exist -- if global temperatures continue to rise. Climate change is contributing to rising ...

jonathanfilskov-photography/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Vaccinating the world against COVID-19, which has killed more than 3.7 million people to date, is a monumental and complex task -- arguably, the biggest...

Rainer Puster/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Chinese birth-control policies could cut up to 4.5 million births of Muslim minorities living in the country’s Xinjiang province over the next 20 years, accordi...

NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory(NEW YORK) -- The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May 2021 hit the highest level ever measured, showing the global coronavirus pandemic did not decrease ...