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  • Paulina Rubio to be judge on `X Factor

    Paulina Rubio will join the panel of judges for the popular Fox television show "The X Factor" next season, the Mexican singer's representative announced Tuesday. Rubio will join the judging panel - which includes show creator Simon Cowell, Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child and Disney star Demi Lovato - during the musical contest show's third season. "I love 'The X Factor'! I can't wait to find ...

  • Mexican firm to acquire US wireless operator

    Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil says it has agreed to buy US mobile operator Start Wireless Group for an undisclosed amount. In a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange, the Mexico City-based company announced its US unit Tracfone Wireless had reached a deal to acquire the assets of Start Wireless Group, an Ohio-based mobile virtual network operator. The transaction is expected ...

  • Protesters at Las Vegas tech show take aim at Mexican billionaires corrupt practices

    Jessica Padron, left, and members of Two Countries One Voice protest against Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman listed as the second richest man in the world by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, in front of the Venetian Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The group accuses Slim’s telecommunication companies of engaging in predatory and monopolistic practices. The protest coincides with CTIA, a ...

  • Mexican Museum site caught in shadow fight

    A proposed 47-story condominium tower -- which also would be the long-awaited permanent home of the Mexican Museum -- faces the prospect of a lawsuit from residents of the Four Seasons on Market Street who want to stop it from casting a pall on sunny Union Square. The 510-foot tower would be built at 706 Mission St. by developer Millennium Partners. At that height, it would drop shadows on the ...

  • Mexican trainer predicts knockout win for Perea

    Veteran Jimrex 'Executioner' Jaca (37-6-3, 21KOs) will face an old enemy he met eight years ago this Saturday night in one of the co-main events of Pinoy Pride XX: Laban Kung Laban at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. This, after his opponent Mexican Jose Emilio Perea brought in his trainer Ernesto Salgado Garcia who was beside WBO Welterweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez ...

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Premonition

There is potential emotional and spiritual intrigue buried somewhere deep in the metaphysical nonsense of Premonition, but what ultimately emerges is an ultimately tedious excursion into existential time-tripping that forces you to work overtime for minimal rew ... ...

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  • Boxes of cash seized in Mexico corruption probe

    MEXICO CITY -; Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco ...

  • Mexican farmers standing up to drug cartels refuse to disarm

    Mexican soldiers patrol the streets during an operation searching for criminals in the area called 'Tierra Caliente' (Hot Land) in the Coalcoman community,Michoacan State, Mexico on May 21, 2013. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images) COALCOMAN, Mexico - Farmers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles ride in pick-up trucks emblazoned with the word "self-defense" to ...

  • Mexico says US economy a worry for growth

    By Michael O'Boyle and Krista Hughes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mixed signals from the U.S. economy are clouding the growth outlook for Mexico and it needs to be ready for the shocks that could accompany a possible withdrawal of U.S. monetary ...

  • Mexicos Pemex to add 30000 bpd capacity to Salinas Cruz

    By Adriana Barrera and David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex PEMX.UL will boost capacity at its biggest refinery, Salinas Cruz, by around 9 percent or 30,000 barrels per day (bdp) once a $4 billion expansion ...

  • Mexico drug cartel dominates torches western state

    LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — The western Mexico state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror.The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection from all sorts of businesses, prompting a backlash in the western agricultural state. Some communities ...

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