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  • US man wanted for child sex abuse held in Mexico

    A former college professor in the US who was on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list over allegations of child sex abuse has been arrested in Mexico, officials said. Walter Lee Williams was detained Tuesday, CNN reported. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had put the former university professor on the list for alleged sexual exploitation of children. Williams researched in the field of ...

  • Mexican telecom firm in talks to restructure debt

    Mexico's Maxcom Telecomunicaciones said Tuesday it was looking to raise new capital and restructure debt after failing to make an interest payment. In a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange, Maxcom said it would use a 30-day grace period with respect to Tuesday's scheduled interest payment of roughly $11 million to continue talks with a new investor and certain of its bondholders with a view ...

  • Brazil Sends Mexico Out Of Confederations Cup With 2 - 0 Defeat

    By Sahara Reports With two goals, one at the beginning of the match and another in the waning seconds, Confederations Cup hosts Brazil maintained its leadership of the Group A table today, and may also have given Mexico, who have lost two matches, its boarding passes for its flight home. Emerging Brazilian star, Neymar, scored Brazil's first goal today, just as he did against Japan in ...

  • Mexican Roots for Majority of Latinos

    Jun 19, 2013 6:19pm Mexican Latinos make up more than two thirds of all Latinos in the United States, according to a new Pew Hispanic report. Of the 51.9 million Latinos living in the United States in 2011, more than 33.5 million trace their family back to Mexico. The report looked at demographic data collected from the 2011 American Community Survey. The report also examined U.S. ...

  • Neymar shines as Brazil account for Mexico

    Neymar all but fired Brazil to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup as they saw off the challenge of Mexico, 2-0, in the Group A clash at Estadio Castelao. Brazil won their opening match against Japan and the three points from tonight means they are in pole position to progress to the next stage, while in contrast, Mexico's cup ambitions look to be over after they also lost their ...

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Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield is not so much a reinvention of the marauding-monster movie as it is a riff on its possibilities--a fascinating and largely successful experiment in the manipulation of cinematic perspective. The already tired description of the film as Godzilla meets The Bla ... ...

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  • Neymar stars as Brazil sink Mexico

    Brazil 's No10 wheeled off in celebration, and was quickly joined by his team-mates, the noiseinside the Estadio Castelao was deafening. The stage seemed set ...

  • UPDATE 1-Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:02pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic Hurricane season, churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to key oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan oil refinery of state oil monopoly Pemex and the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, both in Veracruz state, are ...

  • Brazil 2-0 Mexico Star man Neymar the match-winner again

    Brazil got one foot in the Confederations Cup semi-finals by defeating Mexico 2-0 at the Castelao on Wednesday.Neymar lit up the occasion with an outstanding volley nine minutes in, but what threatened to be a goal glut for the hosts progressed in somewhat anticlimatic fashion, until the Barcelona forward brilliantly set up Jo for the clincher in the dying seconds. Brazil's victory sees ...

  • Mexican Bishop Who Was Nobel Nominee Aims to Fact-Find in Syria

    Delegation Set to Collect Information on Rights Violations in War ZoneROME, May 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Bishop ...

  • UPDATE 1-Mexicos peso stock market slump after Bernanke comments

    MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Mexico's peso dropped to a seven month low and the country's blue chip stock index fell to its lowest level in almost a year after the U.S. Federal Reserve laid out a blueprint for how it could wind down its ...

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