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Dozens killed as Mexico authorities battle drug cartel
Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on Friday, an official said, one of the bloodiest…
What happens to Iraq's Sunni refugees?
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS – Mon. 18.05.15: The Islamic State organisation takes the strategically important town of Ramadi in Iraq. Sunni refugees fleeing towns like Ramadi are met…
USA: FBI admits two decades of flawed forensics
This week, the FBI owns up to a massive scandal. The agency has formally admitted its agents used flawed forensic evidence in criminal investigations for over 20 years. Next, we…
Swissleaks: a drop in the ocean
FRENCH PAPERS - Tues. 10.02.15: French papers focus on the southern city of Marseille where a rough neighborhood was sealed off yesterday after shots were fired at the police.…
Argentine experts question Mexico missing students probe
Argentine forensic experts have voiced serious doubts about a Mexican government probe into the abduction and suspected massacre last year of 43 trainee teachers, who officials…
Is there no end to Rio's cycle of violence?
Since it won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro has been working to secure its violent slums. But that's been overshadowed by frequent blunders by police.…
Mexico: Web users mock Pena Nieto's security reforms
In this edition: Mexicans mock their president's security reforms; a little girl in the UK takes on a well-known retail chain; and a Lego remake of the Stars Wars Episode VII…
Mexico’s president slams missing student protests
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Sunday condemned violent protests over the apparent massacre of 43 students after demonstrators set fire to the door of his ceremonial…
Suspects admit mass killing of missing Mexico students
Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college students have confessed to loading the youths onto dump trucks, murdering them at a landfill, then burning the bodies and dumping the…
Mexico captures gang leader in missing students case
The leader of a criminal gang suspected of conspiring with Mexican police to kill 43 missing students in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero has been arrested, officials…
Mexico: Shock and mourning following mass grave discovery
Authorities in Mexico are under growing pressure to solve the disappearance of 43 students. Two gang hitmen have admitted killing 17 of the students after the discovery of a mass…
