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Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries.”The Embassy said Mexican...
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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river!
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The gay sex scene alone would be enough to ban “This Area Is Under Quarantine” in many countries.
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South...
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The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair.
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A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday.
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The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
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The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say.
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Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s anti-narcotics campaign are the country’s growing legions of addicts, who find...
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American interests could become targets of Mexico’s drug cartels as Washington deepens its involvement in the war against drugs south of the border, according to...
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Soldiers raiding a drug gang safe house in northern Mexico found money-stuffed envelopes earmarked for various police forces and one marked for the “press.”...
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Thirty-one police officers have been arrested in a central Mexican state on suspicion of collaborating with a gang of drug cartel hit men. The Public Safety Department...
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Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the second such mass killing this...
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The seductive trappings of a bloody business that is consuming Mexico is stored in warehouses that dot the countryside.
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Regardless of the direction you choose to look the outcome is the same: Mexico is under fire. Look to the right and we’ve got the narco cartels running drugs,...
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After six months of intense intelligence investigations, Michoacan’s police work finally paid off with the capture of one of La Familia Michoacana Cartels most...
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Benjamin LeBaron, 31, and Luis Widmar, 29, American Mormons, were laid to rest in a funeral which included both heavy law enforcement and military presence as well as...
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“The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
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“What is at stake today is not just the result of an election, but rather the future of democracy, of representative institutions,” he said. “For years … crime...
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If you know what’s good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, stay away from certain places after sunset on the beaches of Mexico’s southern...
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“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.”
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Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...
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Guatemalan authorities confiscated nearly 10 million pseudoephedrine pills worth $33 million on Tuesday — the country’s biggest seizure of the methamphetamine...
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It was the last image the Mexican government wanted from one of its sunny seaside resorts. In the heart of Acapulco, soldiers fought a blazing battle against drug...
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