Russian woman kidnapped near U.S. border in Mexico is freed
The woman was released without paying the ransom kidnappers sought, diplomats said on social media.
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The woman was released without paying the ransom kidnappers sought, diplomats said on social media.
The helicopter was assigned to the federal Southwest border support mission.
The director of Mexico City's water system says the region is facing an "unprecedented situation."
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The clashes happened in the same area where four U.S. citizens, two of whom later died, were kidnapped at gunpoint last year.
The gang was protected by a network of motorcycle taxis and minors who acted as lookouts, officials said.
Authorities said a man believed to have been a dealer was also shot dead in the beach resort of Tulum but the two weren't a couple.
Mexican police hit the beaches after the killings in Acapulco, as cartels recruit youths on social media.
It came after Mexico's highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and suspended the events for more than a year and a half.
Health officials have linked numerous cases of gastrointestinal illness in Southern California to the consumption of raw oysters imported from Mexico.
Authorties say José Alberto García Vilano is known by two nicknames -- "Cyclone 19" and "La Kena"
The woman was arrested as she was preparing to marry her spouse, another extortion suspect who goes by the alias "Mouse."
Authorities in Ecuador say 8 "terrorists" killed, 27 escapees captured after "war" with drug gangs erupts in deadly mayhem at nation's prisons.
Shark attacks are relatively rare in Mexico but the incident marks at least the third deadly attack in the waters off Mexico in about a month.
The migrants were kidnapped while traveling by bus through a northeastern Mexican state where criminal gangs operate, authorities said.
People were terrorized "to contract the internet services at excessive costs, under the claim that they would be killed if they did not," prosecutors said.
The visit came as migrants are crossing the border in record numbers and Congress has been unable to reach a consensus on funding border security.
Aaron Balderrama, 23, had cocaine hidden in four wheels of cheese.
A man accused of killing a teenager in Tracy in 2019 has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
Archaeologists exploring the cave removed the boulder and discovered the rock was "literally splitting" a human skeleton in half.
The victims were young people participating in a religious gathering to celebrate aspects of the story of Christmas, a foundation said.
Thousands of pounds of narcotics were removed from vats of jalapeño paste that entered the U.S. last week in the back of a commercial truck, border agents said.
The male tourist was reported dead at the scene, while the woman was taken to a hospital, officials said.
December 12 is known as the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. For nearly 500 years, she's become a symbol of love, hope, and unity, and for the people of Mexico and Mexicans living in the United States, she holds a special place in their faith and culture.
The killings suggest the cartel believed to have owned the drugs may have launched a generalized retribution.
