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  • Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives

    MEXICO CITY--When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and US soldiers killed in action, Mexico has seen more homicides of Americans than any other part of the world in the past decade, according to an AFP analysis of US ...

  • Mexican Foreign Minister to Pay Official Visit to China

    Beijing, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade, will start Sunday a two-day official visit to China, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Meade meets an invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Those nations last year celebrated four decades of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which rose to strategic partnership in 2003. ...

  • Mexico to create special police unit to search for the missing

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine days. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam made the announcement Friday after meeting with a group of parents who have been on a hunger strike and living in tents outside his office. ...

  • Mexican gangland film contends Cannes Palme d’Or

    MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The Mexican contender for top honors at this year's Cannes Film festival is a brutal depiction of the country's poverty and the gangland carnage it's helped spawn. The initial signs have been good: Director Amat Escalante's latest film "Heli" received a 15-minute ovation when it was shown in ...

  • OAS calls for softer approach toward illegal drug users

    Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (L) receives a document from Jose Miguel Insulza, General Secretary of the Organization for the American States (OAS), during a meeting at presidential palace in Bogota May 17, ...

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Slither

Slither

James Gunn has clearly spent much of his life binging on trashy horror movies, and his directorial debut Slither is, in more ways than one, a regurgitation of everything he has consumed. And, gross as that may sound, I mean it as a compliment. Slither is an absurdly funny, creepy-g ... ...

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  • 19 killed in gas truck explosion in Mexico

    By Dave Graham and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters MEXICO CITY -- A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City early on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 36 others as a fireball tore through cars and homes.Pablo Bedolla, mayor of the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, said 19 people died in the blast that engulfed early morning ...

  • Mexico’s Pena Nieto seeking wide reforms wants to limit power of governors

    MEXICO CITY - Barely a quarter-century ago, Mexico’s all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation’s 31 governors out of office at will. Then the pendulum began to swing. In the last decade, the power of governors grew to such levels that they became known by the moniker “little viceroys.” Now the pendulum is swinging again, with Mexican President Enrique Pena ...

  • Plaintiffs in Mexico Yahoo case say will appeal court ruling

    Reuters © The Yahoo logo is shown at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California April 16, 2013. The company will release its quarterly results on Tuesday. REUTERS/Robert ...

  • Mexico cuts 2013 growth forecast to 3.1

    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico cut its 2013 growth forecast on Friday after the economy expanded less than expected in the first quarter due to slumping industrial production and near stagnant exports.Latin America's second biggest economy after Brazil is now expected to grow by 3.1 percent this year instead of 3.5 percent, the finance ministry said.The forecast was revised after Mexico posted ...

  • UPDATE 2-Transocean chairman voted out $2.24shr dividend backed

    By Alice Baghdjian ZUG, Switzerland, May 17 (Reuters) - Transocean Ltd said shareholders voted out Chairman Michael Talbert at the annual meeting on Friday and backed a nominee of activist investor Carl Icahn to replace him on the board of ...

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