ROME — Police investigating suspected Italian mobsters for cocaine trafficking discovered two Van Gogh paintings hidden in a farmhouse near Naples, masterpieces that had vanished in 2002 during a nighttime heist at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, authorities said Friday.

The two paintings were “considered among the artworks most searched for in the world, on the FBI's list of the Top 10 art crimes,” Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.

They were found in a farmhouse near Castellammare di Stabia as Italian police seized some $22 million worth of assets, including farmland, villas and apartments, and a small airplane.

Investigators contend those assets are linked to two Camorra drug kingpins, Mario Cerrone and Raffaele Imperiale, according to a statement by prosecutors Giovanni Colangelo and Filippo Beatrice.

The recovered masterpieces, propped up on easels, were unveiled for reporters Friday at a news conference in Naples. Museum director Axel Ruger said Italian investigators contacted the museum earlier in the week and art experts determined the paintings were authentic.

“Needless to say, it's a great day for us today,” Ruger told Sky TG24 TV. “We hope they are soon back where they belong.”

One of the paintings, the 1882 “Seascape at Scheveningen,” is one of Vincent Van Gogh's first major works. It depicts a boat setting off into a stormy sea.

The other is a 1884-85 work, “Congregation leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen,” which depicts a church in the southern Netherlands where the artist's father was the pastor.

Experts believe it was done for Van Gogh's mother.

Not guilty plea entered in Tulsa officer's fatal shooting of driver

TULSA, Okla. — Officer Betty Shelby did not say anything at her first court appearance Friday, other than acknowledging her name. Her attorney, Shannon McMurray, entered the not guilty plea on her behalf in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.

Shelby is charged in the Sept. 16 death of Terence Crutcher, whose family sat in the first two rows of the courtroom Friday. Prosecutors allege Shelby acted unreasonably when she shot Crutcher, 40, after she encountered his vehicle abandoned on the street.

Shelby told investigators she feared for her life.

Shelby's next court appearance is set for Nov. 29.

Jamaica on alert as Category 4 hurricane barrels toward island

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Matthew grew into a Category 4 storm Friday as it crossed the Caribbean Sea on a course that could have it pounding Jamaica within days.

The center of the hurricane was projected to pass just to the east of Jamaica early Monday, but the storm was large enough that it could affect the entire island, and the first effects of the storm may be felt starting Saturday, said Evan Thompson, director of the National Meteorological Service.

Jamaica activated its National Emergency Operations Center and Prime Minister Andrew Holness called an urgent meeting of Parliament to discuss preparations for the storm.

Parts of the country, especially the eastern tip and higher elevations, could get up to 8 inches of rain. Flooding and some landslides are likely.

EU officials approve ratification of landmark climate change deal

BRUSSELS — The European Union's environment ministers on Friday approved the ratification of the landmark Paris climate change pact, paving the way for the agreement to take effect in November.

“It's really a historic result,” French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said after the ministers agreed to ratify the deal at talks in Brussels.

More than 170 world leaders have signed the deal, but it won't take effect until 55 countries, accounting for at least 55 percent of global emissions, have ratified or accepted it through their domestic procedures. Sixty-one parties have already ratified it but they only account for 48 percent of emissions.

The EU's ratification, expected to take about a month to complete, would take the Paris Agreement past the 55 percent mark.

Calif. cops release videos of shooting of black man

EL CAJON, Calif. — Police released two videos Friday showing an officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man in a San Diego suburb and said they hoped showing the footage would ease escalating tensions.

The videos show the officer fired four times at close range almost immediately after Alfred Olango, 38, suddenly raised both hands to chest level and took what was described as a shooting stance.

The shots came less than a minute after police arrived at the scene in response to Olango's sister calling 911 and reporting he was acting erratically.

The videos were released after three nights of at times violent protests in El Cajon and on the eve of a demonstration organized by clergy and supporters of Olango's family, who had pressured authorities to show the footage.

5 soldiers killed in attack on Mexican army convoy

MEXICO CITY — The sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman were likely behind an ambush on a military convoy using grenades and high-powered guns that left five soldiers dead and 10 wounded Friday, officials said.

The attack in Mexico's northern Sinaloa state left two military vehicles burned and dead soldiers scattered across a highway. It was apparently launched to free a wounded drug suspect being transported in an ambulance guarded by the convoy.

“It is very probable that it was the sons of Chapo,” said local military commander Gen. Alfonso Duarte.

The pre-dawn ambush was the worst attack on military personnel since 2015, when gunmen in the state of Jalisco shot down an army helicopter with a rocket launcher, killing 10.

Vacation deaths: Two Minnesota sisters found dead in their tropical island villa while vacationing in Seychelles died of excess fluid in their lungs, according to police in the African archipelago nation. Annie Marie Korkki, 37, and Robin Marie Korkki, 42, were found motionless in the bed of their villa last week by hotel staff.

North Korean subs: North Korea may be building a new submarine for launching missiles, a U.S. website that monitors the nation's weapons development said Friday. The website, 38 North, said that commercial satellite imagery suggests a new naval construction program is underway at the Sinpo South Shipyard.