The German government Friday slammed online hate commentaries cheering the unsolved murder of a local politician, who was vocally pro-migrant. "If someone is so hated, just because he had liberal views, that is the decline of human morality," Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer,...

In Africa, 91 million people fall ill each year due to consumption of unsafe foods, said Thomas Kwesi Quartey, the deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission. He was speaking at a commemoration on Friday at the African Union headquarters of the World Food Safety Day that is observed...

Russia and the United States blamed each other for a near collision between their warships in the East China Sea on Friday with both countries accusing one another of dangerous and unprofessional behavior. Russia’s Pacific Fleet said that the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile...

The U.N. refugee agency says heavy rains have triggered severe flooding in southwestern Libya since late May, killing four people and forcing more than 2,500 to flee their homes. The UNHCR says in a statement released on Friday that the rains began on May 28 in the town of Ghat. The town is...