Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled an economic and political crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday. The “alarming” figure highlights the urgent need to support host countries, mainly in Latin...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Friday that what he described as unbridled economic egoism was a recipe for trade and maybe even real wars. Putin, speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg on the same platform as Chinese leader Xi Jinping, complained about...

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...