At least 88 bodies have been unearthed in a complex of mass graves in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas since Thursday, security officials say, likely victims of the country's ongoing drug wars.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has been captured by fighters backing the country's internationally-recognized president.

Japan on April expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has told survivors of last month's devastating tsunami that his government will never abandon them.  

South African President Jacob Zuma says the Libyan government has accepted an African Union peace plan to end the eight-week-old conflict.

UN military helicopters on April 10 pounded heavy weapons positions of fighters loyal to self-declared Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, UN officials said.

The African Union (AU) early on Sunday urged an immediate end to all hostilities in the war-torn Libya and made a proposal on setting up a transition period for adopting reforms.

Icelanders have rejected the latest plan to repay the UK and Netherlands some 4 billion euros lost when the country's banking system collapsed in 2008.

The European Union's top economic official on Saturday ruled out the possibility of restructuring Greece's debt.

ASEAN and Japan Foreign Ministers and senior diplomats attended a special meeting in Indonesia capital city of Jakarta on April 9 to discuss issues relating to the earthquake and tsunami occurring in Japan last March.