The Eiffel Tower was evacuated Friday over a bomb alert, management at the Paris tourist spot said, but was reopened to the public several hours later.

Visitors to the Paris landmark were all asked to leave at 1230 GMT after the unspecified alert, and the monument was reopened at 1430 GMT after police determined it was safe.

Spain said Friday it is reviewing its railway network to boost safety after a train derailed last month killing 79 people, the country's deadliest train disaster in decades.

"Everything is under review and subject to proposals for improvement," Public Works Minister Ana Pastor told a parliamentary panel about the July 24 crash.

The FBI is helping Kenyan authorities investigate the cause of a huge blaze that paralyzed Nairobi airport, a police official said Friday.

Investigators have still not established what caused Wednesday's blaze, which raged out of control for several hours.

A detained Chinese activist has managed to release a video from behind bars urging citizens to fight for their rights in an act likely to further antagonize authorities.

Xu Zhiyong, who has been detained since mid-July, is among two dozen activists rounded up this year for criticizing corruption and other sensitive topics -- despite a government campaign to fight graft.

A 4.9-magnitude aftershock on Friday hit an area of central Greece where a quake damaged scores of homes two days earlier, the Athens Observatory said.

The observatory said the quake struck at 2:49 pm (1149 GMT) near the town of Amfiklia, 123 kilometers (76 miles) northwest of Athens, and was felt in the capital.

Spain will take "all necessary measures" to defend its interests in Gibraltar, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday amid a row with London over the British outpost on Spain's southern tip.

"We will take legal measures which are proportionate to defend the interests of Spaniards," he said after a meeting with Spain's King Juan Carlos on the Mediterranean island of Majorca.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his first meeting with new Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kyrgyzstan next month, the Kremlin said Friday.

Russia has agreed to a proposal from Tehran for the meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on September 13 in Bishkek, Putin's top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said, quoted by Russian news agencies.

Twelve Germans, including seven children, were rescued off Iceland overnight after their sailboat took on water in bad weather and later sank, the coast guard said Friday.

None of the crew members was injured, rescue officials said.

Security forces in Indian Kashmir fired tear gas and pellet guns at hundreds of rock-throwing protesters Friday who took to the streets after prayers for Eid, police and witnesses said.

Police and paramilitary forces clashed with the protesters in several locations in the region's main city of Srinagar including at a major prayer ground, injuring at least 30 people.

An Ethiopian Air Force cargo plane crash-landed at Mogadishu's seaside airport on Friday, killing four people on board, the African Union said.

Two crew members were rescued by emergency personnel and are being treated in the African Union military hospital near the base, said Mahamat Saleh Annadif, an African Union representative to Somalia. He said the runway wasn't damaged and airport operations are expected to resume soon.