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Mexico ex-attorney general to face trial over missing students
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» MEXICO CITY - A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered a former attorney general to stand trial in the case of 43 students whose murky disappearance in 2014 traumatized the nation.
Mexico ex-attorney general to stand trial over missing students
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» MEXICO CITY - A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered a former attorney general to stand trial in the case of 43 students whose murky disappearance in 2014 traumatized the nation.
Former top prosecutor held in disappearance of Mexican students
Published on 20/08/2022
» MEXICO CITY: Authorities in Mexico have arrested a former attorney general who led a widely discredited investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 — one of the country’s worst human rights tragedies.
Mexico seeks 'miracle' to save near-extinct vaquita porpoise
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» SAN FELIPE, Mexico: Mexican naval vessels, spotter planes and conservationists are patrolling the upper Gulf of California in a race against time to save the world's rarest marine mammal from extinction.
Mexico orders arrest of soldiers over case of 43 missing students
AFP, Published on 27/09/2020
» MEXICO CITY: Mexico has ordered dozens of military personnel to be arrested for suspected involvement in the disappearance of 43 students from a teacher's college six years ago, in an unresolved case that outraged the country.
Mammoth graveyard unearthed at Mexico's new airport
AFP, Published on 09/09/2020
» ZUMPANGO (MEXICO) - Archaeologists in hard hats and face masks carefully remove earth from around enormous bones at the site of Mexico City's new airport, where construction work has uncovered a huge trove of mammoth skeletons.
$165m fine in Mexican oil firm graft probe
AFP, Published on 05/10/2019
» MEXICO CITY: A former Pemex executive was slapped with a $165 million fine under a graft probe into the Mexican state oil giant's purchase of a defunct fertilizer company, the government said Friday.
Mexico bans scandal-tainted Odebrecht from federal contracts
AFP, Published on 28/04/2019
» MEXICO CITY - Mexico has imposed a three-year ban on scandal-tainted Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht from participating in federal contracts.
Mexico's new president boosts Pemex budget by $3.7 bn
AFP, Published on 10/12/2018
» MEXICO CITY - Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he would reverse shrinking investment in the state oil company by pouring $3.7 billion into Pemex in 2019, in a bid to boost crude and refined products' output.
Mexico set to inaugurate new president
AFP, Published on 01/12/2018
» MEXICO CITY: Anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will be sworn in as Mexico's next president on Saturday -- a dramatic change in direction for a country fed up with corruption, poverty and crime.