Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

Fueling Wimbledon: What it’s like to feed half-a-million people at the world’s most renowned tennis event
Spectators queue for a Strawberries and Cream vendor during day one of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2023 in London. (Patrick Smith/Getty Imag...
Jon Haworth, ABC News Jul 01, 2024

Several US military bases in Europe put on heightened state of alert, US officials say
Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed.The alert level of For...
Chris Boccia and Anne Flaherty, ABC News Jun 30, 2024

Mexico City residents, faced with water crisis, resort to drastic measures
ABC News(MEXICO CITY) -- Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world, yet it is running out of water. It's a slow-motion disaster decades in the making, caused by a litany of issues includin...
Doc Louallen and Matt Rivers, ABC News Jun 29, 2024

Dozens of sick, injured children medically evacuated from Gaza
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of sick and injured children have been evacuated from Gaza to seek medical treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Israel's Coordinatio...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Jun 28, 2024

Gaza aid piles up amid dispute over whether aid workers can carry radios, security gear
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- U.S. aid intended to help desperate Gaza residents has been sitting untouched on a beach in the war-torn strip because of a long-running dispute between the U.N. and ...
Anne Flaherty and Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News Jun 28, 2024

IDF soldiers say repeated warnings of Hamas activity prior to Oct. 7 attacks were ignored
IDF Observation unit soldiers monitor the Israel- Gaza border. -- IDF/ABC News(NAHAL OZ, Israel) -- It was a sisterhood built around service: there were birthdays away from home, costume parties, TikT...
Ines de la Cuetara, ABC News Jun 28, 2024

Pentagon and USAID watchdogs launch reviews of US pier and humanitarian aid flow into Gaza
Palestinians are climbing onto trucks to grab aid that is being delivered into Gaza through a U.S.-built pier, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as see...
Luis Martinez, ABC News Jun 28, 2024

US sends USS Wasp assault ship and Marines to eastern Mediterranean
Getty Images - STOCK(EUROPE) -- The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and the Marines aboard are being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to serve as a deterrent and provide the U.S. military ...
Luis Martinez, ABC News Jun 27, 2024

Radioactive material inserted into Rhino horns in anti-poaching project
A sedated rhinoceros lies unconscious as professor James Larkin from the University of the Witwatersrand carefully implants dosed and calculated radioisotopes into it's horns in Mokopane on June 25, 2...
Emma Ogao, ABC News Jun 27, 2024

Fossilized skull of Neanderthal child with Down syndrome reveals communal caregiving among species
Getty Images - STOCK(SPAIN) -- Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely aided the child to surv...
Julia Jacobo, ABC News Jun 26, 2024
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