Mexico

Mexicans demand end to 'stealing' of their water under sharing treaty with US

Sep 21, 2020 05:46

Local people in the drought-hit state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, who are angered at a water sharing pact with the United States, have staged a protest to call for an end to the agreement, which they deem as the stealing of their water sources.
US, India record highest daily deaths, cases from coronavirus

Aug 07, 2020 06:58

As the new coronavirus pandemic rages on to take a heavy toll across the globe, the United States and India have registered their record daily jump in deaths and infections respectively over the past months.
Mexico nabs ‘El Marro,’ fuel theft king blamed for surge in drug violence

Aug 03, 2020 04:16

Mexican security forces on Sunday captured Jose Antonio Yepez, a notorious drug gang leader and fuel thief blamed for fanning a sharp surge in violence that has severely tested the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Gunmen attack drug rehab center in Mexico, kill 24

Jul 02, 2020 05:36

Gunmen killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation facility in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, police said on Wednesday, July 1, underlining the government's challenge in fulfilling its pledge to stop gang violence.
Major quake shakes southern Mexico, at least 6 killed

Jun 24, 2020 03:08

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck southern Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least six people and seriously injuring others in isolated villages, while causing damage to buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City.
15 killed in savage attack on indigenous Mexican village

Jun 23, 2020 03:43

Assailants have killed 15 inhabitants of an indigenous village in southern Mexico that has been plagued by local disputes, in one of the most brutal attacks to shake the countryside in recent years.
Iran says ready to work with new members of UNSC

Jun 19, 2020 02:56

Iran’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the election of India, Ireland, Mexico, and Norway as the new non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Saudi Arabia says final accord on oil production depends on Mexico

Apr 10, 2020 10:02

Major oil producers have reached a partial agreement on the reduction of their production to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus pandemic but Saudi Arabia says the final accord depends on Mexico’s consent to go along with the proposed cuts.
19 states sue Trump administration over border wall funding

Mar 04, 2020 06:51

A coalition of 19 states is suing the Trump administration over its new diversion of $3.8 billion in defense funds to the border wall, arguing that the move is unconstitutional and ignores possible environmental impacts.
Trump says US 'strongly' considering closing its Mexico border over corona virus

Mar 01, 2020 07:03

US President Donald Trump has vowed that his administration is “very strongly” considering shutting the country’s southern border with Mexico to purportedly prevent the spread of the corona virus despite detection of only three such infections in the Latin American country – much fewer than the number of cases in the US or in its northern neighbor, Canada.