A Spanish aid boat carrying over 300 migrants rescued at sea has arrived in Spain, ending a weeklong journey across the western Mediterranean.

An Ethiopian official says Eritrea has partially closed two border crossings that opened this year after the former rivals made peace and restored relations.

Two Georgia children found dead and buried in their father’s backyard had been missing for months, but their disappearances were never reported.

Burkina Faso’s security minister says 10 gendarmes have been killed in an ambush after unidentified attackers set fire to a school near the border with Mali.

The Latest on developments related to Syria (all times local):

France’s Foreign Ministry is threatening legal action against a former security aide to President Emmanuel Macron amid reports that he continued using his diplomatic passports after being fired for beating a protester.

Syria’s military announced Friday it has taken control of the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened an offensive.

Japan released video footage on Friday to prove that a South Korean warship allegedly locked its fire-control radar onto a Japanese warplane off the country’s northern coast, the latest move in an escalating row between the two Asian neighbors.

Bad weather and a massive ash column hampered efforts to assess whether Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano island could trigger another deadly tsunami as authorities said Friday the search for victims in the worst-affected province will continue into January.

When 16-year-old Leonid Shaidurov and 14-year-old Maxim Dautov were threatened with expulsion, a criminal probe and being blacklisted from all Russian universities for setting up an independent student union, they didn’t take the threats lying down.