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Mexico probes ex-President Pena Nieto for possible use of illicit funds

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s federal prosecutors are investigating former President Enrique Pena Nieto for the use of potentially illicit funds, the first known case against an ex-leader by an administration that pledged for years to crack down on graft at the highest levels of government.

Tribune News Service

Woman left with horrific burns inside her mouth from ice lolly

Maria Cadena, 27, had washed down the lolly with a tequila shot to try and ease her pain, but made the burns even worse while at a festival in Mexico City

Daily Mirror

The 53 migrants who died in Texas included this college-educated Honduran couple

MEXICO CITY — Alejandro Miguel Andino Caballero had almost completed his university studies in marketing. His fiancee, Margie Támara Paz Grajeda, had earned a degree in economics. Both viewed education as a means to launch careers and surmount humble origins in Honduras, where endemic poverty, crime and corruption have long…

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Four Aztec child burials sites discovered in Mexico

In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five centuries ago.

Reuters

Americans seeking abortion get help from Mexico

Mexico City (AFP) - Facing high medical costs and pressure to reconsider, a single mother living in California turned to activists across the border in Mexico who helped her have an abortion.

AFP

Weed, Snoop Dogg And A Sony Deal: Mexican Rapper Alemán And His Road To Viral Success In Music And Business

Relaxing at home, famous Mexican rapper Erick Raul Alemán Ramirez, a.k.a. Alemán, grabs a bong of Paleolithic dimensions, fills it with weed and lights it up.

Benzinga

After two-year hiatus, Mexico City conducts mass ceremony for same-sex couples

Hundreds of Mexican same-sex couples married on Friday, marking the first time that the annual mass ceremony in Mexico City ahead of its Pride parade has taken place after being cancelled for two years due to the pandemic.

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Mexico's cart ban marks generic shift

In April, the government of Mexico City's central Cuauhtémoc alcaldía, or borough, mandated that all its rótulos -- the hand-painted signs decorating street vendors' kiosks -- be erased.

Bangkok Post

Mexican president under pressure over priest murders

Mexico City (AFP) - The murders of two priests this week in Mexico have put President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on the defensive over his government's failure to significantly reduce violent crime.

AFP

With Netflix’s ‘Chosen One’ crash, Tijuana loses two pillars of its arts scene

MEXICO CITY — Raymundo Garduño Cruz was an actor, director, producer and baseball fanatic who often placed bets on games between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Los Angeles Times

Mexico Court Fines Google ~$200M Over Defamatory Google-Hosted Blog Post

From Mexico News Daily Friday: Mexico City court has ordered tech giant Google to pay more than 4 billion pesos (US $196.4 million) to a Mexican lawyer for allowing defamatory information to be published about him on a blogging platform it owns. Ulrich Richter Morales, a criminal lawyer, initiated legal…

Reason

Mexico City punches its way to a new Guinness record

Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico City has set a world record for hosting the largest boxing class ever, with 14,299 people taking part in a massive lesson in the capital's central plaza, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced Saturday.

AFP

Mexican Park Rescues Felines from Traffickers

Frida, the Bengal tiger, was found chained up a few years ago. Now, she is living in better circumstances in a park sheltering hundreds of other exotic creatures taken from misguided Mexican "pet" owners -- including showy drug traffickers. In 2018, the tiger was found chained up in a restaurant…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mexico Court Fines Google $245 MN over Defamatory Blog

A court in Mexico City on Friday ordered Google to pay $245 million to a Mexican lawyer who said the US tech giant allowed the dissemination of a blog that accused him of money laundering. Google said it would appeal the ruling. "We deplore the conviction," Google said in a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Evening Standard

World Cup 2026 venues: Azteca Stadium among 16 host locations for three-nation, 48-team tournament

Mexico City’s iconic Azteca Stadium and Los Angeles’ $5.5billion SoFi Stadium have been confirmed among the 16 venues for the 2026 World Cup.

Al Jazeera

Miami, Toronto, Mexico City named among 2026 World Cup co-hosts

FIFA unveils list of 16 cities in United States, Canada, and Mexico that will host matches in 2026 World Cup.

AFP

Azteca Stadium, Los Angeles among 2026 World Cup venues

New York (AFP) - Mexico City's iconic Azteca Stadium and the Los Angeles Rams' multi-billion-dollar SoFi Stadium were among 16 venues named on Thursday to stage games at the 2026 World Cup being held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hidu, the electronic-sniffing dog, helps fight kiddie porn in pedophilia case in Mexico City

Soon after graduating from training in Indianapolis, the black Lab was lent by a U.S. anti-sex-trafficking group to help Mexican prosecutors. It paid off.

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The Independent UK

Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico

An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained to sniff out memory devices joined forces this month to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico City

Reuters

Ten killed in Mexico State shootout with security forces, officials say

Three security forces were wounded and 10 suspected criminals killed in a shootout in Mexico State bordering the capital Mexico City, state officials said on Tuesday.

Daily Mirror

Shoppers flee in terror as freak hailstorm causes roof of department store to collapse

Shocking phone footage of the incident shows people screaming and running for their lives as a tonne of debris tumbles down towards them at the Soriana department store in the Mexican capital Mexico City

AFP

Mexico reports 37 US-bound migrants have died this year

Mexico City (AFP) - At least 37 undocumented migrants traveling through Mexico have died so far this year, most of whom drowned attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the United States, Mexico's government reported Sunday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Far from Home, New Chance in Mexico for Frida the Rescued 'Pet' Tiger

As a tiny cub four years ago, Frida the Bengal tiger was found chained up in a restaurant parking lot in Mexico City, dirty, emaciated and unable to walk. Rescued and rehabilitated, she is now a popular attraction at the Reino Animal (Animal Kingdom) park along with hundreds of other…

The Independent UK

Mexico City ban on bullfighting extended indefintely

A judge has extended a ban on bullfighting in Mexico City indefinitely, raising the likelihood that the season will be cancelled at the world's largest remaining venue

AFP

Indefinite suspension of fights in Mexican bullring

Mexico City (AFP) - A judge on Friday ordered an indefinite suspension of bullfighting in the world's largest bullring in Mexico City, pending the finalization of a lawsuit against the controversial, centuries-old practice.

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