Actress joins fight against people trafficking
August 2nd, 2012 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Aug 2 (IANS/EFE) Mexican actress Kate del Castillo is joining forces with Latin American organizations to fight people trafficking in the region via a documentary that will be ... Read more...
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Mexican farmers to sell commodities on futures market
August 2nd, 2012 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Aug 2 (IANS/EFE) The government and brokers are launching the Market Risk Management Program, which will allow farmers to sell commodities using futures contracts, Mexican officials said.The program's ... Read more...
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Brazilian restaurant to open branches in Mexico, Colombia
July 31st, 2012 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, July 31 (IANS/EFE) Rubaiyat, which operates three steakhouses in Brazil and one in Spain, plans to open restaurants next year in Mexico City and Bogota after selling ... Read more...
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Olympics: Mexican president lauds divers for silver medal
July 31st, 2012 - 7:14 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 31 (IANS) Mexican President Felipe Calderon congratulated divers Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez for winning the silver medal in the men's 10-metre platform synchronized diving event at ... Read more...
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Two tonnes of marijuana found in Mexican cemetery
July 30th, 2012 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 30 (IANS/EFE) Army troops found 2.2 tonnes of marijuana in a cemetery in Los Villa Nueva, a community in northeastern Mexico, said authorities.Soldiers found the drugs Thursday ... Read more...
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Mexican protests block TV studios amidst election scandal
July 29th, 2012 - 1:24 am ICT by BNO News
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- Protests in Mexico continued on Thursday and Friday against the recent presidential election results, as thousands formed a 'human blockade' around the country's main TV station.Controversial allegations ... Read more...
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Four slain at festival in Mexico
July 27th, 2012 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 27 (IANS/EFE) Four people died after a man armed with a rifle opened fire during a festival in the southern Mexican town of Huehuetan, said authorities.The shootings ... Read more...
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Millions of birds dead, killed in Mexico flu outbreak
July 26th, 2012 - 10:57 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 26 (IANS/EFE) Some 4.9 million birds have died since the outbreak of bird flu started five weeks ago at farms in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, ... Read more...
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Former Spanish judge to defend Assange
July 25th, 2012 - 1:59 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Former Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon will head the defence team of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuadorian media reported.Garzon, 56, who worked on cases concerning ... Read more...
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Mexico’s central bank sells $281 mn to ease volatility
July 25th, 2012 - 11:57 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 25 (IANS/EFE) The Banco de Mexico said it auctioned off $281 million on the domestic market to reduce volatility in the exchange rate of the peso, which ... Read more...
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17 held in Mexico summer camp attack
July 20th, 2012 - 11:34 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 20 (IANS/EFE) Seventeen suspects have been arrested for a brutal attack on a Mexican summer camp in which two young women and three girls were raped.The attorney ... Read more...
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Carlos Slim launches new TV channel on Internet
July 18th, 2012 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 18 (IANS/EFE) Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim debuted Tuesday as owner and producer of the new online television channel Ora.tv, with the participation of his pal Larry King.The ... Read more...
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Kids’ bodies recovered from 700-year-old Mexican grave
July 18th, 2012 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS
London, July 17 (IANS) Archaeologists in Mexico City have discovered skulls and other bones of 15 human beings from a mysterious mass grave, most of them of children of travelling ... Read more...
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Seven girls raped at summer camp in Mexico
July 16th, 2012 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 16 (IANS/EFE) Seven girls were raped and a number of boys were beaten by assailants who attacked a summer camp in central Mexico last week, authorities said.The ... Read more...
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US most wanted fugitive caught in Mexico
July 15th, 2012 - 2:27 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti)One of the 15 most wanted fugitives of the US Marshals Service's has been held in the Mexican sea resort of Cancun, having remained almost ... Read more...
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1968 Olympics: India’s slide in hockey begins (Sports Special)
July 14th, 2012 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
Behind the veneer of "unity" and "team spirit" that was projected to the public, Indian hockey was almost torn apart by petty politics, groupism and ego clashes in the months leading ... Read more...
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Seven beheaded in Mexican town
July 13th, 2012 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 13 (IANS/EFE) Seven decapitated bodies were found Thursday in the central Mexican town of Jojutla, authorities said.The bodies were inside a pick-up truck abandoned next to a ... Read more...
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Nissan expects production boost from $2 bn plant in Mexico
July 11th, 2012 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 11 (IANS/EFE) Japanese automaker Nissan has laid the first stone at its new $2 billion plant in Mexico, where it expects to increase production to more than ... Read more...
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Mexico declares bird flu emergency
July 3rd, 2012 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 3 (IANS) Mexico has activated a national emergency plan to contain a bird flu epidemic that has affected nearly 1.7 million poultry, the agriculture ministry said.The plan ... Read more...
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Mexican remittances rise
July 3rd, 2012 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 3 (IANS/EFE) Remittances from Mexicans living abroad climbed 7.8 percent in May compared with the same month in 2011, the central bank has said.Last month's total was ... Read more...
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26 killed in Mexico bus accident
June 25th, 2012 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 25 (IANS) At least 26 people died in Mexico when their bus overturned and plunged into a deep ravine, authorities said.The bus fell into a 200-meter-deep ravine ... Read more...
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Bieber sings in Mexico for free
June 13th, 2012 - 1:59 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, June 13 (IANS) Singer Justin Bieber made his fans go gaga in Mexico when he performed a free show for 300,000 people.Bieber has played a string of impromptu ... Read more...
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Mexico, China seal extradition treaty
June 12th, 2012 - 11:39 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 12 (IANS/EFE) The governments of Mexico and China have exchanged documents for an extradition treaty, opening the way for each nation to hand over criminals, officials said.Mexican ... Read more...
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Double-arm transplant performed in Mexico
June 9th, 2012 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 9 (IANS/EFE) A 52-year-old Mexican man who lost his arms in a 2011 electrical accident became the first patient in Latin America to receive a double-arm transplant.Surgeons ... Read more...
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Mexico enacts witness-protection law
June 9th, 2012 - 11:54 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 9 (IANS/EFE) President Felipe Calderon signed into law a measure authorizing benefits - including new identities - for people who find themselves at risk due to their ... Read more...
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Paraguay striker to play with bullet lodged in skull
June 8th, 2012 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, June 8 (IANS) The wife of former Paraguayan international Salvador Cabanas revealed the striker is risking his life by playing with a bullet lodged in his skull.The ... Read more...
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Dating service uses philandering Mexican politician’s image
June 8th, 2012 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 8 (IANS/EFE) The admitted past marital infidelities of Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto have become fodder for a new advertisement campaign by an agency that arranges ... Read more...
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Maya ruins buried under Mexican highway preserved
June 7th, 2012 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 7 (IANS/EFE) Mexican authorities have preserved an archaeological area with several Maya buildings more than 1,500 years old that were buried under a highway in the Yucatan ... Read more...
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Delta Airlines buys stake in Aeromexico
June 6th, 2012 - 11:28 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 6 (IANS/EFE) Delta Airlines, the No. 2 carrier in the US, has acquired a 4.17 percent stake in Grupo Aeromexico for $65 million as part of a ... Read more...
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Hugo Chavez gives house to Twitter follower
June 1st, 2012 - 7:06 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has gifted a house to a 19-year-old woman who became his three millionth follower on Twitter.According to Mexican publication Milenio, ... Read more...
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Mexican mother blinds her son in satanic ritual
May 25th, 2012 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 25 (IANS/EFE) A Mexican mother blinded her five-year-old son in an apparent satanic ritual, authorities in the central state of Mexico said Thursday.Carmen Rios Garcia, 23, is ... Read more...
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FDI falls in Mexico
May 24th, 2012 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 24 (IANS/EFE) Mexico received $4.37 billion in foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the first quarter, down 8.7 percent from the same period in 2011, authorities said.FDI ... Read more...
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Abducted Mexican journalist found dead (Lead)
May 19th, 2012 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 19 (IANS) The body of a 39-year-old crime reporter, abducted in Mexico's Sonora state, has been found inside a plastic bag, CNN reported.Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body ... Read more...
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Journalist kidnapped in Mexico
May 19th, 2012 - 11:20 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 19 (IANS/EFE) A crime reporter in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora has been abducted, his newspaper said Friday.Marcos Avila Garcia, 39, was at a carwash a ... Read more...
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Mexican rights body probes attack on reporter
May 14th, 2012 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, May 14 (IANS/EFE) The National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, is investigating last week's attack on journalist Gerardo Ponce de Leon in Hermosillo, the capital of the northern ... Read more...
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