Mexican soldiers and police killed 10 Zetas drug cartel suspects in a gunfight on Thursday in the eastern state of Veracruz, authorities said.

A state police officer was wounded in the clash, a Veracruz public security agency official told Agence France Presse.

The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile tests and agreed to quickly consult on an appropriate response, its rotating president said.

"Security Council members condemn this launch as a violation of Security Council resolutions," Luxembourg's ambassador Sylvie Lucas told reporters after a closed-door debate of less than an hour.

Planes and ships raced Friday to a fresh search zone after a "credible new lead" that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was flying faster than first thought before it plunged into the remote Indian Ocean.

Ten aircraft from six countries -- Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States -- altered their flight paths to an area 1,100 kilometers (685 miles) northeast of where they have been looking for a week, far off western Australia.

Colombia confirmed Thursday that the United States had asked it to take in inmates from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.

It did so after news reports in Uruguay said that that country, Brazil and Colombia had been approached by the Americans.

The U.S. House and Senate overwhelmingly adopted separate Ukraine aid packages Thursday, including sanctions against Russians, easing a weeks-long impasse on how American lawmakers can help Kiev's new government.

Senators were almost unanimous in a voice vote to pass their legislation which offers $1 billion in loan guarantees pledged to Ukraine by President Barack Obama, and punishes Russian officials and others for their role in Moscow's Crimea aggression.

Hundreds of Ukrainian far-right nationalists rallied outside the parliament building in Kiev Thursday night, smashing windows and demanding the interior minister's resignation, days after police shot dead one of their leaders.

Elite police on Monday killed Oleksandr Muzytchko, the regional leader of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), in a shootout that erupted during a raid to arrest him in the western city of Rivne.

Bosnian forensic experts discovered a mass grave which might hide the remains of more than 100 Muslim civilians killed at the start of the country's 1990s war, an official said Thursday.

"According to indications we have, this mass grave could contain the remains of between 100 and 147 victims," said Lejla Cengic, spokeswoman of Bosnia's Institute for Missing People, quoted by the Fena news agency.

Cameroon said on Thursday it had arrested three suspected arms dealers believed to be linked to Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

The men were caught in the far north of the country on Wednesday, near the border with Nigeria where the group has been waging a brutal armed insurgency.

Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel will travel to China and Japan next week after hosting a meeting of Asian defense ministers in Hawaii, amid tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over a disputed island chain.

The U.S. military has sought improved relations with its Chinese counterpart, arguing that stronger links will help avoid dangerous misunderstandings.

Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie arrived in Sarajevo on Thursday with British Foreign Secretary William Hague to take part in a conference on sexual violence in war.

Dressed in black, the U.S. actress arrived at the Sarajevo airport in pouring rain and headed to a hotel in downtown Sarajevo.