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Egyptian authorities on Thursday arrested four people in connection with the death of at least 42 migrants whose Europe-bound boat capsized off Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

President Bashar Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city's rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, blaming the U.S. for the collapse of a cease-fire many had hoped would bring relief to the war-ravaged country.

The Associated Press sat down with Syrian President Bashar Assad at a palace in downtown Damascus.

Turkey's central bank has cut one of its main interest rates in an effort to shore up an economy that has struggled this year with shocks including bombings and an attempted coup.

Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.

South African police have fired tear gas at stone-throwing students demanding free education at a campus in a provincial capital.

Most of the roughly 60,000 refugees and other migrants stranded in Greece are living in "appalling conditions" and face "immense and avoidable suffering," rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday slamming Europe's response to the refugee crisis.

Two Belgian police officers have been briefly detained by their French colleagues as they returned a group of migrants to French soil, an incident that caused tensions between the neighbors.

A Yemeni health official says that airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition bombed civilian homes in a Red Sea port city and killed at least 18 people.

A Bank of England panel says Britain faces a challenging period of adjustment following the vote to leave the European Union, as uncertainty about the country's relationship with the bloc reinforces some financial risks.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is inviting the United Nations to help negotiations to swap the kidnapped schoolgirls from Chibok for detained leaders of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.

A top European court has dismissed a case brought by relatives of three Bosnian men murdered during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre who had appealed a decision by Dutch prosecutors not to file criminal charges against three Dutch officers for alleged complicity in the deaths.

Denmark's A.P.

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 11:25 a.m.

Chinese officials are conceding mistakes in the smoothing over of a much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great Wall of China in the name of restoration.

Hanjin Shipping is to receive as much as $100 million in additional funds to resolve the cargo crisis caused by its slide toward bankruptcy.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry says three people have died when one of its helicopters crashed near Moscow.

The Iraqi military says its forces have pushed deeper into a key Islamic State-held town north of Baghdad days after launching an operation to retake it.

Standing on a hillside above this ancient town in eastern Germany, Firas al-Habbal winces as he explains why he doesn't go down "there" anymore.

The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local): 12:05 p.m.