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The decision was based on concerns that the country was not doing enough to protect its people from abuses by the police and the military.

Five police officers were killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol Wednesday evening in the southern town of Doncello, where leftist rebels are active.

Migrants are apparently dying at the hands of a drug gang seeking money or possibly recruits, officials said, though no nobody knows for sure.

The organization and leadership of the miners will be essential to their rescue, officials said.

Eight employees of a Cancun strip club were killed early Tuesday when a group of men threw Molotov cocktails into the building in a working-class area not frequented by tourists.

Hurricane Earl passed through the northern Caribbean early Tuesday and veered onto a path toward the East Coast of the United States.

Using a 31-ton drill, rescue workers made a shallow, preliminary hole Tuesday, the first step in a bid to rescue 33 trapped miners.

Hurricane Earl tore through the northern Caribbean, escalating to Category Four status with winds up to 135 miles an hour that downed power lines, damaged homes and sent hundreds of people fleeing.

The man, known as La Barbie, could be extradited to the United States to face charges of cocaine trafficking.

Tour operators said that they were confident they could reschedule flights, but many customers feared they would not get promised refunds.

The assassination was the latest episode of increasing drug-driven violence in Tamaulipas State, near the Gulf of Mexico.

The trapped miners will have to clear from 3,000 to 4,000 tons of rock from the rescue hole as it is drilled, which will require about a half-dozen men working in shifts 24 hours a day.

Mayor Marco Antonio Leal Garcia of Hidalgo, a town in the violence-plagued state of Tamaulipas, has been assassinated, the second killing of a mayor in the area in as many weeks.

Ford is recalling 575,000 older model Windstar vans in the United States and Canada over concerns that the rear axles can corrode and potentially break.

In what might be considered his comeback term, President Alan García is still battling low approval ratings and heated criticism from his constituents.

A trucking group said Friday that it planned to appeal a ruling that allows the Port of Los Angeles to enforce antismog rules on trucks that enter the port.