Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

ABC News(HAMBURG) -- One of Germany's largest airports was shut down for more than 18 hours after a man believed to be armed and holding his 4-year-old child hostage drove a vehicle through a security...

John Elk III/Getty Images(NEPAL) -- A strong magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Nepal just before midnight on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.6 magnitude quake had a depth of 17.9 kilometer...

MOHAMMED ABED / Contributor/Getty Images(GAZA) -- Moments after President Joe Biden announced the Rafah crossing would open for "wounded Palestinians and for foreign nationals to exit Gaza," hundreds ...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The family of an American-Israeli couple believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas when it attacked Israel on Oct. 7 is recounting the agonizing details of what they know from...

pawel.gaul/Getty Images(SDEROT, Israel) -- An Israeli fighter jet roared overhead as it dropped a bomb near where Lena Beseiso and her family were hunkered down in the war-torn Gaza Strip. The 57-year...

Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some people in Gaza have been given clearance to leave for the first time via Egypt's Rafah border crossing since Oct. 7, when the terrorist group Hamas a...

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After weeks of negotiations on the matter, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that some Americans trapped inside Gaza have left and mo...

pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Gazan Younes Elhallaq is hiding from airstrikes in a home with 30 of his family members -- seven families housed in four rooms under one roof. Many of them evacuat...

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Earth is already on the brink of surpassing an internationally agreed-upon threshold for climate warming, relative to pre-industrial levels, which could...

ABC News(HANOI, Vietnam) -- In Hanoi, Vietnam, remnants of its centuries of colonialism and war are scattered among the city's more modern structures. An ancient gate hides amongst urban noodle s...