Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Haiti’s Port-au-Prince airport reopens for first time since country hit with gang violence
KeithBinns/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Haiti’s Port-au-Prince airport has been reopened after being closed for nearly three months after unprecedented gang violence forced it to close, effectively...
May 21, 2024
Expert provides insight into suspected cause of helicopter crash that killed Iran's president
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other officials died in a helicopter crash Sunday near Iran's northern border wit...
May 20, 2024
UK High Court allows Julian Assange to continue appealing extradition to US
Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, delivers a speech in front of the Home Office as protesters gather to Demand Julian Assange's Immediate release on May 17, 2022 in London, Eng...
May 20, 2024
Iranian vice president to become acting president until election, supreme leader says
People bring flowers to the Iranian embassy to pay tribute to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in Moscow on May 20, 2024. The placard with a Raisi portrait...
May 20, 2024
US troops to leave Niger by mid-September: Officials
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- All of the remaining U.S. troops based in Niger will leave the country no later than mid-September, according to U.S. officials and a joint statement from ...
May 19, 2024
Iran's President Raisi dead in helicopter crash, former foreign minister blames US sanctions
Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is dead following a helicopter crash, Iranian state media said Monday morning.The I...
May 19, 2024
Inside Gaza's mental health crisis impacting civilians, aid workers: 'Catastrophic'
Getty Images - STOCK(GAZA) -- A "catastrophic" mental health crisis has unfolded in Gaza, affecting both civilians and humanitarian workers, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to internation...
May 17, 2024
Why climate migration in Brazil has become a global crisis
Mario Tama/Getty Images(BRAZIL) -- "It is absolutely, absurdly, extraordinarily serious what is happening in Rio Grande do Sul right now -- and unfortunately, it will get worse," Brazilian state gover...
May 17, 2024
Rwanda genocide tribunal comes to end after almost three decades
JonGorr/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has officially concluded after 29 years, the Office of the Prosecutor has announced.It comes as the las...
May 16, 2024
Slovakian prime minister's condition stabilizes after assassination attempt
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico walks during the European Council summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on April 18, 2024. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Slovakian Pri...
May 16, 2024
