Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, April 2

SAN JOSE -- Carlos Alvarado, the candidate from the ruling Citizen Action Party, won Costa Rica's presidential runoff with 60.74 percent of the vote, according to the latest results released by the country's electoral tribunal on Sunday evening.

With 95.58 percent ballots counted, Carlos Alvarado gained 60.74 percent of the vote, and his rival, Fabricio Alvarado, an evangelical candidate from the National Restoration Party, obtained 39.26 percent of the vote, according to the results. (Costa Rica-Election)

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LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC) confirmed that Tiangong-1, China's experimental space lab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at about 5:16 p.m. PST (0016 April 2 GMT) Sunday.

"The JFSCC used the Space Surveillance Network sensors and their orbital analysis system to confirm Tiangong-1's re-entry," U.S. Air Force officials wrote in a statement. (U.S.-Tiangong-Re-entry)

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KABUL -- Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) has reset October 20 for the parliamentary elections, local media reported on Monday.

"The 28th of the month of Mizan, which coincided with October 20, has been set for holding parliamentary elections," the newspaper Daily Outlook said. (Afghanistan-Parliamentary Election)

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TRIPOLI -- Violence in Libya killed five civilians and injured 11 others in March, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said Sunday.

From March 1 to March 31, 2018, UNSMIL "documented 16 civilian casualties - five deaths and 11 injuries - during the conduct of hostilities across Libya, a significant drop from the two previous months," UNSMIL said in a report. (Libya-Violence) Enditem