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VATICAN CITY, JULY 10, 2009 .- Benedict XVI is affirming Mexico's efforts in favor of life and against drug trafficking problems, while calling for a deeper understanding of the citizen's right to religious freedom.

A shootout between rival drug gangs and police left two dead and one wounded Friday in the western state of Michoacan, part of a wave of violence that claimed the lives of at least 13 people across Mexico.

A study by a bi-national team of global health researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, examining HIV infection among male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, has found that over half of male clients had recently had unprotected sex.

PACULA, Mexico Not long ago, this remote mountain town was in the middle of a construction boom as families proudly built their American-style dream homes using cash sent by relatives working in the United States.

In February, Rivera-Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.

Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral on Thursday for two American Mormons murdered in a northern Mexican community by drug hitmen for denouncing cartel kidnappings, and the FBI offered to aid a police probe.

For all his effort, his strategy also banks heavily on the commodity that helped get him elected: hope.

The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.

Police in western Mexico have found four hacked-up bodies in plastic bags on the side of a highway.

Leaders of the Group of Five emerging countries -- Brazil, India, China, Mexico and South Africa -- met on the sidelines of G-8 Summit on Wednesday.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Bernal sees positives in swine flu scare SHOWBIZ Movie star GAEL GARCIA BERNAL has branded the swine flu outbreak in his native Mexico "liberating" - because the whole country united to fight the deadly disease.

Leaving for Italy to attend the Summit of G-8 industrialised nations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the economic slowdown needed be dealt with by a concerted and well-coordinated global response addressing systemic failures and stimulating the real economy.

An Austin man wanted by police and charged with the sexual assault of a child was arrested Tuesday night in Mexico.

The economy has put a damper on a lot of Iowa families' plans for vacations this summer, but, Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge says she has a solution.

"The PRI comes back" shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm elections.

Mexico City - Interpol has issued arrest warrants for nine fugitives wanted in Mexico for a daycare fire that killed 48 children in June, justice officials said on Tuesday.

The brother of a 16-year-old boy whose kidnapping sparked protests over the lawlessness in northern Mexico has been killed.

An anti-kidnapping activist and a neighbour, both members of the pacifist Mennonite community in northern Mexico, were killed on Tuesday by gunmen believed linked to a drug cartel, a local legislator said.

Call it the case of the dead cells -- both telephones and the ones in the brain.

The federal government worries its embassy in Mexico City is a hot spot for demonstrations against Canadian mining companies, documents show.