Mexico
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Mexico's COVID-19 death toll now world's 3rd highest
World | Aug 01, 2020, 10:07 PM ISTWith a total of 46,688 fatalities, Mexico now accounts for the world's third highest number of coronavirus fatalities in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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US travel restrictions with Canada, Mexico extended
World | Jul 17, 2020, 12:41 PM ISTAddressing the media in Ottawa on Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeay confirmed the development, adding that "we're going to keep working closely with our American neighbours to keep people safe on both sides of the border".
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24 shot dead as gunmen attack drug rehab center in Mexico
World | Jul 02, 2020, 08:52 AM ISTMexican drug gangs have killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs sheltering at such facilities in the past. It was one of the deadliest attacks on a rehab center since 19 people were killed in 2010 in Chihuahua city in northern Mexico. More than a dozen attacks on such facilities have occurred since then.
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Powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake jolts Mexico
News | Jun 24, 2020, 08:27 AM ISTA powerful earthquake centered near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least two people, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets.
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Giant graveyard of 60 mammoths discovered outside Mexico
Science | May 27, 2020, 09:25 PM ISTA giant "graveyard" of about 60 mammoths has been discovered outside Mexico city, according to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
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3,400-year-old Ballgame court found during excavation in Mexico
World | Mar 14, 2020, 04:18 PM ISTArchaeologists Jeffrey Blomster and Víctor Salazar Chávez have discovered Ballgame court situated at the Mexican site of Etlatongo.
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Trump signs US-Mexico-Canada trade accord
World | Jan 30, 2020, 06:48 AM ISTUS President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday, a measure to implement the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), intended to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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'Oh my God, look at that...' says an onlooker as two cruise ships collide at Mexico Port | Watch
World | Dec 22, 2019, 09:52 AM ISTThe incident took place on Friday when two Carnival Corp cruise ships collided in the port of Mexico's Caribbean resort.
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At least 14 dead in Mexico gun battle near Texas border
World | Dec 01, 2019, 08:05 PM ISTMexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said. Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
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At least 14 dead in Mexico gunbattle near Texas border
World | Dec 01, 2019, 12:48 PM ISTCoahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
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More than 227K Indians waiting for family-sponsored Green Card
India | Nov 28, 2019, 09:27 AM ISTCurrently, there are about four million people waiting in line for family-sponsored Green Cards against a Congressional cap of 226,000 per annum. The largest number of 1.5 million waitlists is from America's southern neighbour Mexico, followed by a distant India with 227,000 and China with nearly 180,000.
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Mexico City bullring to host Roger Federer-Alexander Zverev tennis match
Tennis | Nov 23, 2019, 04:32 PM ISTIt will be Roger Federer's first game in Mexico, in a career that has seen him win 20 Grand Slam titles.
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5 US citizens killed in grisly Mexico attack
World | Nov 05, 2019, 02:40 PM ISTLeBaron family members said that a large group of three mothers and 14 children had set off in a convoy of cars from Bavispe in Sonora state and were heading to La Mora in the neighbouring state of Chihuahua.
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Failed raid against El Chapo's son leaves 8 dead in Mexico
World | Oct 19, 2019, 08:00 AM ISTThe gunbattle Thursday paralyzed the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state, Culiacan, and left the streets littered with burning vehicles. Residents took cover indoors as automatic gunfire raged outside.
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Mexico deports 311 Indians amid crackdown on illegal migrants
World | Oct 17, 2019, 01:48 PM ISTAccording to a press release issued by the National Migration Institute (INM) on Wednesday, the Indian nationals, who did not have a condition of regular stay in the country, were deported from the Toluca City International Airport on a Boeing 747 aircraft to New Delhi.
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Soldier, 14 civilians killed in Mexico armed clashes
World | Oct 16, 2019, 10:25 AM ISTThe incident comes just a day after armed assailants killed at least 13 police officers in an ambush in Aguililla, a town in west-central Michoacan state.
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44 bodies found in Mexico well, victims identified
World | Sep 15, 2019, 10:59 AM ISTThe human remains were discovered in the well just outside the city of Guadalajara earlier in September when local residents started complaining about the smell
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23 killed, 13 injured in an attack on a Bar in Southern Mexico
World | Aug 28, 2019, 03:33 PM ISTThe attack came almost eight years to the day after a fire at a casino in the northern city of Monterrey killed 52 people. The Zetas drug cartel staged that 2011 attack to enforce demands for protection payments.
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Gunmen kill eight people in Mexico
India | Aug 01, 2019, 08:11 AM ISTThe area is close to the intersection outside the Chacchoben archaeological site, located barely one kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Limones, a town within the city limits of Bacalar, which is popular with tourists.
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Mudslide in Mexico leaves at least 7 dead
World | Jul 12, 2019, 08:19 AM ISTSeven people - three adults and four minors - died when part of a hillside collapsed in central Mexico due to heavy rainfall, local authorities said on Thursday.