Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Father thought daughter was killed by Hamas, learns she's being held hostage
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For more than three weeks, Tom Hand thought his 8-year-old daughter, Emily, was dead following Hamas' surprise terrorist attack on Israel. Given the alternat...
Nov 08, 2023
South Korea fights off unprecedented bedbug infestation
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- South Korean authorities have been desperately detecting and exterminating bedbugs for the last two weeks, as a major disinfection of transportation ...
Nov 08, 2023
US diplomatic push continues as Netanyahu considers pauses
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken's high-profile visit to the Middle East to push for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war may have yielded no immediate results, but Ame...
Nov 08, 2023
White House says Israel should not reoccupy Gaza, after Netanyahu remarks
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Tuesday repeated its opposition to an Israeli reoccupation of Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News' World News Tonight anchor D...
Nov 08, 2023
Why cheetahs will be especially vulnerable to climate change, according to new research
Anup Shah/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Even the fastest animal in the world can't outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts. Cheetah populations are especially vulnerable to rising tempe...
Nov 08, 2023
Britain's 'loneliest' sheep rescued from remote Scottish cliff
Nigel Hicks/Getty Images (LONDON) -- Britain's so-called "loneliest sheep" has been rescued after being stranded for at least two years at the foot of a remote cliff in the Scottish highlands. Fiona t...
Nov 07, 2023
Why women, children are disproportionately impacted by the conflict in Gaza: Experts
Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women and children in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the Israel-Hamas war, according to United Nations agencies and experts. More than 10,000 people have...
Nov 07, 2023
ABC's Muir presses Netanyahu on whether he takes responsibility for Oct. 7 intelligence failures
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In an exclusive interview with ABC News' World News Tonight anchor David Muir, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged he bears some responsibility for the intelli...
Nov 07, 2023
Four charged after fully functional solid gold toilet called 'America' stolen from Winston Churchill's birthplace
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Four people have been charged after a fully-functional solid gold toilet worth nearly $6 million was stolen from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former Prime M...
Nov 07, 2023
Netanyahu to ABC's Muir: 'No cease-fire' without release of hostages
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again rejected the idea of a cease-fire in Gaza unless hostages are released, speaking in an exclusive interview with ABC News ...
Nov 06, 2023
