Greece will begin the process of sending refugees, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, to other EU member states under the bloc's refugee relocation plan on Wednesday, Athens said.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet a first group of 30 refugees at Athens airport early Wednesday morning before they voluntarily board a plane for Luxembourg, the government said in a statement Tuesday.

A U.S. military satellite detected a heat flash over the Sinai at the time a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people aboard, U.S. media reported.

The Airbus A321 plunged to the ground Saturday 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh on a flight to St. Petersburg.

EU president Donald Tusk urged Turkey on Tuesday to show its readiness to work with Brussels on issues such as the migrant crisis following a stunning election win by the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Congratulating Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on his re-election, Tusk also urged Turkey to restart its peace process with the Kurds and warned of increasing security challenges and restrictions on the media.

A woman who says she was secretly married to Saudi Arabia's late king Fahd won her claim for a multi-million pound payout from his son at London's High Court on Tuesday.

Judge Peter Smith ruled that Janan Harb was entitled to more than £15 million ($23 million/21 million euros), plus the deeds to two plush London flats, thought to be worth £5 million each.

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday charged two opposition journalists with plotting a coup over a magazine cover criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's election win. 

"Nokta editor-in-chief Cevheri Guven and managing editor Murat Capan were arrested on charges of attempting to overthrow the government by force," the magazine wrote on Twitter. 

A young Afghan woman was stoned to death after being accused of adultery, officials said Tuesday, a medieval punishment apparently recorded in a video that harks back to the dark days of Taliban rule.

The 30-second clip run in Afghan media shows a woman in a hole in the ground as turbaned men gather around and hurl stones at her with chilling nonchalance.

Fresh clashes between Mozambican government forces and the main opposition Renamo party resulted in several deaths, police said Tuesday, while denying reports that more than 200 had been killed.

The government has vowed to disarm Renamo, which has refused to accept the results of last year's elections that returned the long-ruling Frelimo party to power.

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara was sworn in Tuesday for a second five-year term after winning re-election in the nation's first peaceful vote in more than a decade.

Senegal's President Macky Sall, chief of the ECOWAS regional bloc, and Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi were among top officials watching as Ouattara, dressed in a dark suit, formally returned to power at a ceremony in Abidjan.

Investigators on Tuesday began examining the two black boxes from the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the probe would take time.

Sisi described a claim by the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State jihadist group that it downed the Airbus A321 that crashed on Saturday killing all 224 people on board as "propaganda."

A video posted on the Facebook page of Myanmar's president, raising the specter of bloodshed and chaos akin to the Arab Spring aftermath if it loses power in Sunday's polls, has drawn an angry response on social media.

The tightly edited four-minute feature was posted on the page of President Thein Sein, days before the country heads to the polls in landmark elections which are expected to see the opposition make major gains.