Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
2 Navy SEALs missing off Somalia coast were on a nighttime boarding mission: US officials
shaunl/Getty Images(SOMALIA) -- Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing off the coast of Somalia after having fallen into the water during a nighttime boarding mission on Thursday, according to two U.S. offic...
Jan 13, 2024
US launches another retaliatory airstrike against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
On Jan. 11, 2024, at 2:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces, in coordination with the United Kingdom, and support from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Bahrain conducted joint stri...
Jan 13, 2024
US, UK launch large-scale retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen
filo/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory airstrikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants...
Jan 12, 2024
Archaeologists announce discovery of Anglo-Saxon cemetery with bodies and treasures dating back 1,500 years
MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have announced a major historical discovery dating back to as early as the 6th century after finding ...
Jan 11, 2024
More than 100 prison guards held hostage in Ecuador amid state of emergency
Members of the Armed Forces frisk men during an operation to protect civil security in Quito, on Jan. 10, 2024. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 125 prison guards and 14 administr...
Jan 11, 2024
Iranian Navy seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
KeithBinns/Getty Images(LONDON) -- An oil tanker was seized by the Iranian Navy in the waters between Iran and Oman on Thursday, according to state media. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA published a...
Jan 11, 2024
Biden administration faces growing pressure to strike back at Iranian-backed Houthis
Yemen's Houthi loyalists lift their weapons as they take part in an armed parade for more than 20,000 members who have finished a military course, staged to show their willingness to battle any potent...
Jan 11, 2024
In grim milestone, 1% of Gaza Strip population killed since Israel-Hamas war began
Amir Levy/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started follow...
Jan 10, 2024
Gunmen storm Ecuador TV station after president declares state of emergency
An Ecuadorean police squad approach the premises of Ecuador's TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on Jan. 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ec...
Jan 10, 2024
US Navy and UK Royal Navy shoot down 18 Houthi drones and three missiles
KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Navy and the U.K.’s Royal Navy foiled a major Houthi attack Tuesday night in the Red Sea, shooting down 18 one-way drones and three missiles targe...
Jan 10, 2024
