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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Three US nationals gunned down in Mexico
December 25th, 2011 - 8:40 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 25 (IANS) A 39-year-old American woman and her two daughters died when unidentified gunmen opened fire at three buses in Mexico, officials said.The gang of five gunmen ... Read more...
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20 dead in Mexico bar attack
July 9th, 2011 - 2:37 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, July 9 (IANS) Twenty people were killed and five others were injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar in northeastern Mexico, Xinhua reported.The attack took place Friday ... Read more...
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13 more bodies found in mass graves in northern Mexico
April 8th, 2011 - 11:10 pm ICT by BNO News
TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) -- Mexican authorities on Fridya announced that 13 more bodies were located in mass graves in Tamaulipas state, northeastern Mexico.According to El Universal newspaper, the new discovery was ... Read more...
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59 bodies found in Mexico mass graves
April 8th, 2011 - 7:32 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, April 8 (IANS/EFE) Fifty-nine bodies have been found in eight mass graves in northeastern Mexico, officials said.Police found the mass graves in Tamaulipas state while investigating into reports ... Read more...
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Cartels have been weakened, says Mexican government
December 27th, 2010 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 27 (IANS/EFE) The government's security strategy has succeeded in weakening Mexico's drug cartels, including the Pacific cartel, whose members accounted for 24 percent of the drug arrests made in ... Read more...
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150 inmates escape from Mexico prison
December 19th, 2010 - 1:11 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 19 (IANS/EFE) At least 151 inmates have escaped from a prison in northeastern Mexico, just across the border from the American state of Texas, officials said.The incident occurred Friday ... Read more...
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Tropical Storm Hermine Weakens After It Hits Texas
September 8th, 2010 - 6:39 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Raymondville, Texas, Sep 8, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Despite the fact that Tropical Storm Hermine has lost much of its strength and has been downgraded to the category of tropical depression on ... Read more...
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Tropical Storm Hermine hits northeastern Mexico, Texas
September 7th, 2010 - 10:26 pm ICT by BNO News
HOUSTON (BNO NEWS) -- Tropical Storm Hermine barreled into southern Texas on Tuesday, after making landfall in northeastern Mexico on Monday night with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/hr), meteorologists ... Read more...
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Hurricane watch issued for northeastern Mexico, Texas coasts as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthens
September 6th, 2010 - 9:59 pm ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- Newly-formed Tropical Storm Hermine will likely reach hurricane status in the next hours before hitting the coast of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas on Monday night, meteorologists said, ... Read more...
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Tropical storm Hermine forms, expected to make landfall on U.S.-Mexico coast
September 6th, 2010 - 4:33 pm ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- Tropical Depression Ten strengthened into Tropical Storm Hermine on early Monday morning, forecasters said, and the storm is expected to make landfall on the U.S.-Mexico border on early ... Read more...
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Car bomb explodes outside Mexico TV station
August 28th, 2010 - 3:07 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Aug 28 (IANS) A car bomb exploded in front of a television station in a city in northeastern Mexico, but there were no reports of any casualties.
The blast in a ... Read more...
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Hurricane Alex gathers strength off northeast Mexico’s coast
July 1st, 2010 - 4:12 am ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- Category one hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic season, continued to gather strength slowly on Wednesday, just hours before making landfall in northeast Mexico, ... Read more...
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Hurricane Alex to become category two storm prior to landfall
June 30th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- Category one hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic season, is forecast to become a category two storm before it makes landfall in Mexico, ... Read more...
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Hurricane warning as Alex storm strengthens
June 30th, 2010 - 8:44 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Gulf of Mexico, Jun 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Gulf of Mexico is bracing itself for the first hurricane of the year, as tropical storm Alex is getting strengthened into a hurricane. ... Read more...
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Warnings Discharged For Mexico And Texas As Hurricane Alex Gains Muscle
June 30th, 2010 - 8:06 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Hurricane Alex has gained muscle in the western Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. It is on the road to northeastern Mexico and the American ... Read more...
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Tropical storm Alex expected to become a hurricane
June 30th, 2010 - 5:00 am ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) – With tropical storm Alex slowly approaching northern Mexico and Texas, authorities have issued a hurricane warning from south of Baffin Bay in Texas to La Cruz, ... Read more...
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Hurricane warning issued for Texas, Mexico as tropical storm Alex nears
June 29th, 2010 - 10:54 pm ICT by BNO News
MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- With tropical storm Alex slowly approaching northern Mexico and Texas, authorities have issued a hurricane warning from south of Baffin Bay in Texas to La Cruz, ... Read more...
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20 killed in Mexico drug violence
June 12th, 2010 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, June 12 (IANS/EFE) Twenty people were shot and killed in Ciudad Madero town in northeastern Mexico in drug-related violence, officials said.
Six bodies were found in El Chipus neighbourhood of the ... Read more...
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New evidence suggests meteorite did not wipe out dinos
May 5th, 2009 - 12:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 5 (ANI): A geoscientist and her research team from Princeton University have compiled new evidence disproving a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ... Read more...
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Crocodiles kill man in Mexico
August 13th, 2008 - 4:49 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Aug 13 (IANS) A drunken man has been brutally killed by as many as eight crocodiles when he tried to touch one of the reptiles at a wildlife sanctuary in ... Read more...
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