• Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to build a strategic relationship, but Mr Wen warned that disputes over the wartime past could still hurt the fragile re-approachment. Mr Wen's three-day visit, the first by a Chinese leader since 2000, aims to deepen a thaw begun with a trip by Abe to Beijing in October. The two sides did not achieve a breakthrough in a sea territory dispute this time, but came out of their summit promising cooperation in energy, diplomacy and security.

• Moroccan security forces were hunting more suspected suicide bombers a day after four were killed in Casablanca, newspapers reported. Three suspected bombers detonated their explosive belts, killing themselves and at least one police officer and wounding more than 20 people in a police raid on a safe house in which a fourth was shot dead, police sources said.

• A senior Iranian official dismissed doubts about whether Iran had achieved industrial-scale nuclear fuel production and said scepticism about its programme had proved incorrect in the past. "Maybe they thought we needed more time to reach the industrial stage but due to the efforts of our specialists we have already reached that stage," the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saeedi, said in comments carried by the Iranian state broadcaster's website.