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Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city
(AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:20:04 GMT
AP - Eight journalists have been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association said Wednesday.
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World's mega-rich adding wealth, Carlos Slim No. 1
(Reuters)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:49:58 GMT
 Reuters - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 percent over the last year, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
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Mexican Carlos Slim world's richest in new ranking
(AFP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:46 GMT
 AFP - The world's new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia helped lead a comeback for the wealthiest few on the planet in 2010, Forbes magazine said Wednesday.
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5 of 6 killed in Ariz. bus crash were Californians
(AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:40 GMT
 AP - Authorities say five of the six people killed in an Arizona bus crash were California residents, and all were Mexican citizens.
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US-born capo, drug lord's brother fight for cartel
(AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:20:35 GMT
 AP - Authorities say a U.S.-born hitman is fighting the brother of a deceased drug lord for control of the Beltran-Leyva cartel, marking what may be the first time an American has risen to the very top ranks of Mexican gangs.
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LA cops seek man who robbed Florida sugar baron
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:39:59 GMT
AP - A well-dressed man who talked his way into a Florida sugar baron's hotel room and stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry may be the same person who pulled similar scams on a Mexican soccer team, a salsa band and an Israeli basketball team when they visited Los Angeles, police said Tuesday.
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Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:02:58 GMT
 AP - An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.
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Obama criticized for Mexico, Brazil sanctions
(Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:36 GMT
Reuters - Republicans and business groups on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's administration for failing to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute nearly one year after Mexico slapped retaliatory duties on about $2.4 billion worth of U.S. exports.
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Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:18:03 GMT
AP - A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court.
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Lawyers in Mexico church sex abuse case resign
(AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:55:22 GMT
AP - A Mexican lawyer said Monday he has resigned from handling the case of a woman and her sons who claim the males were sexually abused as boys by the founder of a conservative Roman Catholic religious order.
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Mexico's Maciel Sex Abuse Focuses on Legion of Christ
(Time.com)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:50:00 GMT
Time.com - Will new revelations about the Mexican priest force the Pope to launch an investigation of the controversial Legion of Christ?
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Catholic church slams Mexico City's leftist mayor
(AP)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:33:42 GMT
AP - Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has published its harshest criticism to date of leftist Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, accusing his administration of botching issues ranging from crime to public transit.
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Mexico City cuts cops' calories
(AP)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:51:01 GMT
AP - Mexico City's police department has introduced a new lower-calorie menu in cafeterias serving its 70,000-member force after finding out that almost three-quarters of officers are overweight.
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WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle; 2 dead
(AP)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:31:35 GMT
AP - A neurosurgeon and one other person were killed when the World War II-era plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.
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Ambush kills 2 Mexican federal police, wounds 3
(AP)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:15:56 GMT
 AP - Heavily armed gunmen ambushed a convoy of federal police on a highway in one of Mexico's drug battleground states Friday night, killing two officers and wounding three, officials said.
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US 'part of the problem' in drug trade: Clinton
(AFP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:26:08 GMT
 AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted Friday that US demand is "part of the problem" fuelling Central America's drug wars and pledged more help in fighting ruthless Mexican cartels.
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Red Cross is latest victim of Mexican drug war
(AP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:22:58 GMT
AP - Red Cross clinics in some parts of Mexico are refusing to treat people wounded by gunshots after finding themselves caught in the drug war, with cartel hit men intercepting ambulances to seize patients and even killing a Red Cross worker this week.
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Clinton to tackle drug trade with Latin America leaders
(AFP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:44:46 GMT
AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived here Friday for talks with Central American leaders on stemming drug trafficking linked to ruthless Mexican cartels.
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Mexican official fired for painting teen's bottom
(AP)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:47:48 GMT
AP - A mayor in central Mexico says he has fired one of his town officials for spray-painting the buttocks of a teenage boy as punishment for graffiti tagging.
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Baby wounded, mother killed in Mexican border city
(AP)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:57:52 GMT
AP - Authorities in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say assailants shot a woman to death and seriously wounded her 9-month-old daughter.
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