Venezuela Mars mission after 2030: Chavez
February 11th, 2012 - 7:59 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Friday his country would be able to send a mission to Mars after 2030."Venezuela has stepped onto the road ... Read more...
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700 fall ill after eating at Mexico rally
February 10th, 2012 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) At least 700 people fell ill after eating rice and eggs at a political rally in Mexico, officials said.The residents of Chilapa in Guerrero state ... Read more...
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15 tonnes of methamphetamine seized in Mexico
February 10th, 2012 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) Around 15 tonnes of synthetic drug methamphetamine have been seized from a ranch in Mexico, the army said.The seizure took place in Tlajomulco city of ... Read more...
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Huge pet crocodile seized in Mexico
February 10th, 2012 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) A 150-kg pet crocodile was seized from a house in Mexico, officials said.The two-metre-long crocodile, named "Chuy", was seized from Tlaquepaque city in western Jalisco ... Read more...
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Mexico’s wind energy sector experiencing rapid growth
February 9th, 2012 - 12:19 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 9 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's wind power sector is playing an expanding role in the global development of that renewable energy source, having just achieved the milestone of 1,000 ... Read more...
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Mexican oil giant needs $25 bn in annual investment
February 8th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 8 (IANS/EFE) State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will "require annual investment and acquisitions" for its operations "exceeding 320 billion pesos (nearly $25.2 billion)" over the ... Read more...
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Mexico makes vaccine against drug addiction
February 6th, 2012 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) A vaccine against heroin addiction that has been patented in Mexico will be ready for human use in around five years.Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski said ... Read more...
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58 Mexicans die of flu
February 6th, 2012 - 10:04 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) A total of 58 people have died of flu in Mexico so far this year. The deaths were caused by different strains of flu virus, ... Read more...
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Transsexual runs for office in Mexico
February 5th, 2012 - 11:32 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning."This isn't a matter ... Read more...
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Spanish singer to take a break due to exhaustion
February 2nd, 2012 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Feb 2 (IANS/EFE) Spanish singer Monica Naranjo wants to take a break from her career to focus her energies on her family and on her next artistic project, ... Read more...
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Mexican oil firm posts nearly $25 bn surplus in 2011
February 1st, 2012 - 12:57 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Feb 1 (IANS/EFE) Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Tuesday it posted a trade surplus of $24.99 billion in 2011, up 28 percent from the prior year.Exports totaled $55.79 ... Read more...
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Mexico lost $872 bn to illegal capital flight: Study
January 31st, 2012 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 31 (IANS/EFE) Mexico lost $872 billion to illicit financial outflows between 1970 and 2010, according to a report released Monday by a US-based research and advocacy group.The ... Read more...
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Cold weather, flu kill 72 in Mexico
January 29th, 2012 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 29 (IANS/EFE) Cold weather in Mexico has left 40 people dead while 32 have died due to flu, the government said.Thirty died due to carbon monoxide poisoning, ... Read more...
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Mexican swine flu outbreak kills 29, infects nearly 1,500
January 28th, 2012 - 10:29 pm ICT by BNO News
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are ... Read more...
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Cocaine found in UN headquarters
January 27th, 2012 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 27 (IANS) More than 35 pounds (15 kg) of cocaine was sent in a bag that turned up at the UN headquarters in New York, CNN reported.The ... Read more...
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Mexico rolls out supercomputer
January 27th, 2012 - 11:54 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 27 (IANS/EFE) Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America's No. 2 supercomputer by size and speed, with the ability to process 24.9 trillion operations per second, authorities said.The computer, ... Read more...
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Nissan to build new $2 bn plant in Mexico
January 27th, 2012 - 11:41 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 27 (IANS/EFE) Nissan Motor Co. announced plans to invest $2 billion in building a third manufacturing facility in Mexico.The new plant in the central state of Aguascalientes ... Read more...
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2.5 mn Mexicans at risk of going hungry due to drought
January 27th, 2012 - 11:30 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 27 (IANS/EFE) Some 2.5 million people are at risk of going hungry due to the severe drought plaguing more than half of Mexico's 32 states, a leading ... Read more...
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Mexico a huge producer of child porn: Official
January 26th, 2012 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 26 (IANS/EFE) Mexico is one of the world's biggest producers of child pornography, and is also a source, transit and destination country for people involved in sexual ... Read more...
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Ukraine, Brazil talk on energy
January 24th, 2012 - 4:55 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Ukraine has started talks with Brazil on joint development of hydrocarbons on the Black Sea shelf, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko said Tuesday."Naftogaz Ukraina ... Read more...
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Mexico, EU sign pact to boost tourism
January 24th, 2012 - 2:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/EFE) Mexico and the European Union have signed an agreement to bolster bilateral tourism, authorities said."Tourism is an activity that has the ability to generate economic ... Read more...
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Nobel laureate denounces impunity for crimes against women
January 24th, 2012 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/EFE) Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams denounced in Mexico the impunity that prevails for crimes against women in this country and the lack of political ... Read more...
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Mexico sends aid to northern communities suffering from hunger
January 19th, 2012 - 12:20 am ICT by BNO News
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- The Mexican government on Tuesday began sending emergency aid to the northern state of Chihuahua where the Tarahumara communities are suffering from severe food shortages, officials said ... Read more...
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Microsoft opens technology centre in Brazil
January 18th, 2012 - 6:01 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Jan 18 (IANS) Microsoft inaugurated a major technology centre in Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo Tuesday.The new Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) is the largest of its kind ... Read more...
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Mexican comic blasted for joke about fire victims
January 18th, 2012 - 11:26 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 18 (IANS/EFE) Mexicans went to Twitter and other social networks with demands that a comic lose his job as a television clown after he joked about the ... Read more...
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Mexico home to five of world’s 10 deadliest cities
January 15th, 2012 - 4:05 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 15 (IANS/EFE) Five of the world's 10 deadliest cities in 2011 are in Mexico, a report has said.A Honduras metropolis, San Pedro Sula, topped the list with ... Read more...
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Mexico set auto production record in 2011
January 12th, 2012 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 12 (IANS/EFE) Mexico set a new auto production record of 2.55 million cars and light trucks in 2011, a 13.1 percent increase compared to the previous year, ... Read more...
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Mexican gangs using kids to smuggle drugs to US
January 9th, 2012 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 9 (IANS/EFE) Children and teenagers between the ages of 11 and 17 are being recruited by Mexico's drug cartels to smuggle narcotics into the US and also ... Read more...
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Footballer-turned-gangster arrested in Mexico
January 9th, 2012 - 9:58 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 9 (IANS/EFE) A former professional footballer player turned kidnapping specialist has been arrested in Mexico, officials said.Omar Ortiz Uribe, who was a goalkeeper for first division club ... Read more...
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Four tonnes of drugs seized in Mexico
January 9th, 2012 - 5:41 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 9 (IANS/EFE) Mexican army raided three clandestine synthetic drug laboratories and seized more than four tonnes of narcotics and chemical precursors, officials said.The raid took place in ... Read more...
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71-year-old found chained to bed in Mexico
January 9th, 2012 - 4:08 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 9 (IANS/EFE) A 71-year-old man, suspected to be an alcoholic, was found chained to bed in Mexico, police said.The man was rescued in Mexicali, capital of the ... Read more...
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Venezuelan inmates hold 700 jail visitors hostage
January 8th, 2012 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Inmates of Venezuela's jail held hostage over 680 people visiting their relatives in the Los Teques prison, the Globovision channel reported Sunday.The inmates said ... Read more...
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10 killed in Mexican city
January 8th, 2012 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 8 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed in separate violent incidents in the northern Mexican city of Torreon over Friday and Saturday, said police. Five of ... Read more...
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Mexico sets world record for highest suspension bridge
January 7th, 2012 - 9:38 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 7 (IANS/EFE) Mexico has set a new Guinness record for the world's highest suspension bridge.President Felipe Calderon Thursday received the honour bestowed on the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, ... Read more...
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Mexican man held for 52 murders
January 7th, 2012 - 9:04 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 7 (IANS/EFE) A Mexican drug cartel leader has been arrested for planning an arson attack on a casino that left at least 52 dead, officials said.Baltazar Saucedo ... Read more...
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