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The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.

Police in western Mexico have found four hacked-up bodies in plastic bags on the side of a highway.

Leaders of the Group of Five emerging countries -- Brazil, India, China, Mexico and South Africa -- met on the sidelines of G-8 Summit on Wednesday.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Bernal sees positives in swine flu scare SHOWBIZ Movie star GAEL GARCIA BERNAL has branded the swine flu outbreak in his native Mexico "liberating" - because the whole country united to fight the deadly disease.

Leaving for Italy to attend the Summit of G-8 industrialised nations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the economic slowdown needed be dealt with by a concerted and well-coordinated global response addressing systemic failures and stimulating the real economy.

An Austin man wanted by police and charged with the sexual assault of a child was arrested Tuesday night in Mexico.

The economy has put a damper on a lot of Iowa families' plans for vacations this summer, but, Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge says she has a solution.

"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 elections.

Mexico City - Interpol has issued arrest warrants for nine fugitives wanted in Mexico for a daycare fire that killed 48 children in June, justice officials said on Tuesday.

The brother of a 16-year-old boy whose kidnapping sparked protests over the lawlessness in northern Mexico has been killed.

An anti-kidnapping activist and a neighbour, both members of the pacifist Mennonite community in northern Mexico, were killed on Tuesday by gunmen believed linked to a drug cartel, a local legislator said.

Call it the case of the dead cells -- both telephones and the ones in the brain.

The federal government worries its embassy in Mexico City is a hot spot for demonstrations against Canadian mining companies, documents show.

For decades, tourists have been able to visit the movie set where John Wayne held off Mexican soldiers in the movie "The Alamo," but the Alamo Village in Brackettville is now closed.

July 4th. Independence Day in the United States of America; the more it changes, the more it stays the same.

Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that women who deliver prematurely have, on average, up to three times the phthalate level in their urine compared to women who carry to term.

Two Marines were killed and a third was injured after a vehicle crash Friday morning in Mexico.

The political party that ruled Mexico for 71 years with an iron fist made a significant comeback in midterm elections Sunday.

When the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidency for the first time in 2000, a new era of democracy was hailed in Mexico. But it appears that a sharp economic downturn and a deadly drug war has given the venerable party a boost.

According to preliminary results, the PRI was leading the race by 8 percentage points, despite a generally high approval rating for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). The PRI also held leads in four of six governors races.

Nearly two years ago Mexican soldiers acting on what they said was an anonymous tip seized more than 11 tons of cocaine being unloaded by Gulf Cartel members at a warehouse near the eastern coastal city of Tampico.

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