Mexico
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At least 40 killed in gun battle in Mexico
World | May 23, 2015, 07:55 AM ISTEcuandureo: About 40 people were killed in large-scale firefight on Friday between law enforcement and criminal suspects in western Mexico, a Mexican official said. Almost all the dead were suspected criminals, said the official, who
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Indian refineries target Mexico, Iraq for oil imports
Mar 17, 2015, 12:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: India's total oil imports from its traditional suppliers Saudi Arabia and Iran saw a gradual reduction as Indian refiners are trying to diversify their procurement sources globally.The refiners have now stepped up purchases
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Strong 6.2 quake registered off Mexico's Pacific coast
World | Feb 22, 2015, 11:38 PM ISTMexico City: A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake off Mexico's Pacific coast state of Jalisco produced no immediate reports of damage or injuries, civil protection authorities said Sunday.Santos Munoz, a spokesman for the Jalisco State civil protection
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Thousands demonstrate in Mexico in remembrance of missing students
World | Jan 27, 2015, 06:59 AM ISTMexico City: Shouting "Ayotzinapa lives," thousands of people demonstrated in this capital to mark the four-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 teaching students in the southern state of Guerrero and to demand that they
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Mexico: Warrant for mayor in disappearance of 43 students
World | Jan 14, 2015, 11:30 AM ISTMexico City: Mexican officials have filed an arrest warrant for the former mayor of a southern city for the kidnapping of 43 teachers' college students.Tomas Zeron, head of criminal investigations for the Federal Prosecutor's Office,
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Mexico wants to ban nets, save endangered porpoise
World | Dec 25, 2014, 07:14 AM ISTMexico City: Mexican authorities are proposing a $37 million plan to ban gillnet fishing in most of the upper Sea of Cortez to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.The plan would
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General Motors announces $3.6 bn investment in Mexico
Dec 12, 2014, 10:34 AM ISTMexico City: US auto giant General Motors(GM) on Thursday announced $3.6 billion in investment to be made in Mexico by 2018.the funds will be mainly used for moderniSing and expanding the firm's manufacturing plants in the
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Protests over missing students turn violent in Mexico
World | Nov 21, 2014, 06:26 AM ISTMexico City: Protests over the abduction and apparent killing of 43 students in Mexico turned violent on Thursday, as protesters blocked roads and hurled crude bombs at the police.The protests happened on a day when
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Mexico: Violent protests hit Acapulco's tourism
World | Nov 13, 2014, 11:31 AM ISTMexico City: Mexico's president has tried to keep the issue of violence issue separate from his focus on the economy, but the two are converging as violent protests over 43 disappeared students squelch tourism in
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Continued protests in Mexico over missing students
World | Nov 06, 2014, 11:36 AM ISTMexico City: Classes have been suspended at university campuses around Mexico to protest against the government's failure to locate the 43 college students who went missing in September.Students and faculty in Mexico City, Michoacan and
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Mexico: DNA tests confirm 3 dead were US citizens
World | Nov 02, 2014, 06:46 AM ISTMexico City: DNA testing confirmed that three U.S. citizens were among the four bodies found shot to death near the Texas border more than two weeks after they went missing on a visit to Mexico,
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Lloyd leads US women past Mexico 3-0
Football | Oct 25, 2014, 08:02 AM ISTChester, Pa: Carli Lloyd scored a pair of goals in a 3-0 semifinal victory over Mexico on Friday night, securing the United States a trip to next year's World Cup and a spot in the
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Mexico tops Jamaica, to face US in WCup qualifying
Football | Oct 22, 2014, 01:20 PM ISTWashington: Mexico advanced in Women's World Cup qualifying Tuesday night with a 3-1 win over Jamaica, setting up a semifinal match against the United States in similar circumstances to four years ago -- when the
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Mexico arrests alleged head of Juarez cartel
World | Oct 10, 2014, 06:55 AM ISTMexico City: Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced.After investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes' whereabouts to a neighborhood of Torreon, he
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Federal forces join search for missing students in Mexico
World | Oct 03, 2014, 07:55 AM ISTMexico City: Mexican Government Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio said on Thursday that federal security forces were assisting authorities in the southern state of Guerrero in their search for dozens of teacher trainees who have been
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Mexico seeks 57 missing after weekend violence
World | Sep 30, 2014, 07:14 AM ISTAcapulco,Maxico: Authorities were searching Monday for 57 students reported missing after weekend violence left at least six people dead and 25 wounded in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.Twenty-two police officers from the city of
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Mexico airlifts tourists after Hurricane Odile
World | Sep 17, 2014, 07:42 AM ISTCABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico: The Mexican government began airlifting the first of tens of thousands of stranded tourists out of the hurricane-ravaged resort area of Los Cabos on Tuesday, as residents picked up the pieces
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Hurricane Odile slams Mexico's Baja California
World | Sep 16, 2014, 08:25 AM ISTCABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico: Hurricane Odile blazed a trail of destruction through Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Monday that leveled everything from ramshackle homes to luxury hotels and big box stores, leaving entire neighborhoods as
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Ronaldinho: 'I need win something in Mexico'
Football | Sep 13, 2014, 11:28 AM ISTMexico City: Ronaldinho says he feels young again after joining Mexican club Queretaro. "I'm like a youngster that is starting over," he said Friday at the official presentation of the former Barcelona and Brazil star,
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Mexico touts 'Cantinflas' for Oscar
Hollywood | Sep 12, 2014, 01:47 PM ISTMexico City: "Cantinflas", directed by Sebastian del Amo, will represent Mexico in the competition for the Oscar for best foreign language film, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC) has announced.Luis Estrada's "La