MEXICO: An undetermined number of hacked-up bodies have been found in two vehicles abandoned on a bridge in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz as part of a suspected score settling between gangs.

Prosecutors said police found human anatomical parts in the vehicles, and that investigators were performing laboratory tests to determine the number of victims.

SOUTH AFRICA: Dozens of journalists held a vigil late on Sunday for their 83 counterparts who have been killed in Gaza amid Israel’s bombardment.

Vigil organisers said they were also paying homage to their colleagues in Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and anyone else affected, but said that the deaths in Gaza are unprecedented.

AFRICA: Niger, Mali and  Burkina Faso have announced they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in what they said was a “sovereign decision.”

They said Ecowas, which has opposed military coups in the three that reject French economic domination, was “under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, becoming a threat to member states and peoples.”

SRI LANKA: Fishing vessels containing 23 crew members from Iran and Sri Lanka were rescued by Indian and Seychelles forces today after being hijacked by Somali pirates two days earlier.

The hijacking came two weeks after Sri Lanka said it would join the US-led operation to protect merchant vessels in the Red Sea against attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and amid concerns the pirates have resumed activity after a decade due to the chaos in international shipping.