"The public is looking for a way out of the country's quagmire and the man to lead it out," he told Israeli radio.

"I always said that this story was invented," he told German radio after the new accounts appeared.

We must put down our weapons and fight those who do not,'" he told Israeli radio.

He told Croatian national radio that he would not appear because the court had no jurisdiction over his actions.

Compaore told French radio that exiled opposition members were free to return home.

Hospital officials told Spanish national radio that at least five of those hospitalized were in critical condition.

"It does not serve us," he told Palestinian radio.

The Cypriot foreign minister told public radio his country would lodge a formal protest over the incident.

"We are in a position to confirm that we will achieve the deficit goal, which is 6pc," he told Spanish radio.

"My captors were very polite to me," he told French television and radio.