Dutch troops were fanning out across part of the hurricane-hit island of St Martin on Friday as shots were heard and officials admitted there had been some looting.

Turkey on Friday launched a probe into a main opposition party MP for accusing the government of killing and wounding civilians with drones, and said only terrorists had been targeted.

Malian and Burkinabe soldiers have killed, tortured and disappeared civilians while trying to root out jihadists in central Mali, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday it was too early to talk about a vote at the U.N. Security Council on new North Korea sanctions, insisting any pressure should be balanced against restarting talks.

Civilians in a central province of the strife-torn Central African Republic are enduring "a horrifying surge in torture, pillage and forced displacement," Amnesty International reported Friday.

Italian police officers are under investigation for the alleged rape of two U.S. students in Florence, media said Friday.

Boko Haram jihadists killed eight people in a series of raids on farming communities in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia members and local residents told the AFP news agency on Friday.

Kiev reported Friday the first combat death since Ukraine agreed a new truce with Kremlin-backed rebels in the east of the country ahead of the start of the new school year.

Moldova's president accused the government Friday of defying him by sending troops to join U.S.-led military drills in Ukraine and vowed to punish those responsible, in the latest crisis to hit the ex-Soviet country.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has met with the mother of detained Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and says she is "deeply troubled" by the jailing of political prisoners in the country.

May met Thursday at 10 Downing St. with Antonieta Lopez and with Julio Borges, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly.