Xinhua world news summary at 0210 GMT, Oct. 25

Several municipalities in the western Mexican state Jalisco on the Pacific coast on Saturday were still on alert as Hurricane Patricia lashed further inland and weakened to a tropical storm.

Hurricane Patricia made landfall in Jalisco Friday evening, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, but causing less damage than feared. The hurricane was downgraded from Category 5 to 4 one hour after the landfall, according to the National Weather Service (SMN). (Mexico-Hurricane)

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JOHANNESBURG -- Visiting South Sudanese President Salva Kirr on Saturday pledged his commitment to implementing a peace agreement with anti-government forces.

After meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, Kirr acknowledged that there were challenges in implementing the agreement, but said he would overcome such challenges. (S.Sudan-Peace agreement)

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HOUSTON -- Three people were killed and 22 others injured Saturday when a car crashed into a crowd of spectators at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade in Stillwater, a city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

The accident occurred after 10:30 a.m., local time, as a Hyundai Elantra traveling at high speed crashed into an unoccupied police motorcycle before plowing into a crowd of people at the parade, according to local TV station ABC13. (U.S.-Accident)

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Saturday that his government will not change the status quo in East Jerusalem's flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound.

The announcement came after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed to reduce tensions at the holy site, which have triggered a deadly Israeli-Palestinian wave of violence. (Israel-Mosque) Endi