Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Kenyan president withdraws controversial tax bill amid deadly protests
A protester lobs back a teargas canister at police during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. (Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty ...
Jun 26, 2024
Assange lands in Australia after pleading guilty in US court
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hugs his wife, Stella Assange, after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024. (William West/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Julian Assange arrived...
Jun 26, 2024
US military delivers supplies to Gaza via pier, but there's no one to distribute them
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials are defending President Joe Biden's decision to build a $230 million temporary pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid as a better-than-nothing solution to the...
Jun 26, 2024
American woman goes missing while attending yoga retreat in the Bahamas
Royal Bahamas Police Force(NEW YORK) -- An American who traveled to the Bahamas to attend a yoga retreat has been missing for nearly a week, her family and police said.Taylor Casey, 41, of Chicago, wa...
Jun 26, 2024
American reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives in Russian court for secret espionage trial
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESN...
Jun 26, 2024
China's lunar probe returns to Earth with first samples from far side of the moon
Officials prepare to recover the landing module of the Chang'e-6 moon probe after it landed in Inner Mongolia, in northern China on June 25, 2024. (-/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- China's Chang'e...
Jun 26, 2024
Julian Assange to reunite with family that has only known him in prison
Neal Pritchard Photography/Getty Images(LONDON) -- When Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sets foot in his native Australia Wednesday, he will be a free man for the first time after 14 years spent in s...
Jun 25, 2024
Multiple deaths reported as police clash with anti-tax protesters in Kenya
Protesters react after being pushed by Kenya Police officers while demonstrating during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024...
Jun 25, 2024
South Sudan's epic effort to protect the world's largest mammal migration
African Parks(NEW YORK) -- South Sudan is trying to protect the largest land mammal migration in history by partnering with the nonprofit organization African Parks to safeguard the migratory species ...
Jun 25, 2024
Julian Assange pleads guilty at hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands
An airplane (C) that carried Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is pictured on the tarmac at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on June 25, 2024. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON)...
Jun 25, 2024
