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Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Mexico: USGS

Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Mexico: USGS

AFP - Friday, July 3 02:39 pm

LA PAZ, Mexico (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 6.0 in magnitude shook northwestern Mexico early Friday but caused no damage. More »

  • Four decapitated in Mexican violence

    Four decapitated in Mexican violence

    AFP - Friday, July 3 04:07 am

    CIUDAD JUAREZ (AFP) - At least four men have been found decapitated and 12 others murdered in suspected drug violence in the last 24 hours, Mexican officials said. More »

  • Brazil's Lula scolds rich nations on migration

    Brazil's Lula scolds rich nations on migration

    AFP - Friday, July 3 01:53 am

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva issued a law giving tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants legal status and criticized rich nations for taking a tough stance against illegal migrants. More »

  • Brazil calls off search for Air France victims 

    Reuters - Saturday, June 27 01:04 am

    SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Air Force and Navy on Friday called off the search for additional victims and wreckage from Air France Flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic on June 1 carrying 228 people. More »

  • Hurricane Andres roars by western Mexico, one dead 

    Reuters - Tuesday, June 23 11:02 pm

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Andres, the first cyclone of the eastern Pacific season, pounded western Mexico on Tuesday after sweeping a fisherman to his death and flooding streets in Acapulco. More »

  • Storm menaces Mexico coast

    Reuters - Monday, June 22 08:56 pm

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Powerful tropical storm Andres churned off Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday, threatening to brush past the popular beach resort of Zihuatanejo as it builds into a hurricane, forecasters said. More »

  • Debris of the missing Air France flight 447, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Recife's port June 14, 2009. REUTERS/JC Imagem/Alexandre Severo

    No French access to Brazil plane crash autopsies 

    Reuters - Wednesday, June 17 11:57 am

    PARIS (Reuters) - France's chief air disaster investigator said on Wednesday he was unhappy that a French pathologist had not been allowed to take part in autopsies in Brazil of bodies recovered after an Air France plane crash. More »

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