Mexico

MEXICO: An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck off the coast of Baja California in Mexico on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, about 30 km (18.6 miles) west-southwest of Las Brisas in BajaCalifornia, struck at a…

MEXICO CITY: Hurricane Roslyn is expected to hit Mexico's Pacific coastat near major hurricane strength bringing dangerous storm surges and flooding, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, as authorities urged residents in some…

GUANAJUATO, Mexico: Twelve people were killed Saturday in a shooting attack in a bar in the city of Irapuato, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the municipal governmentsaid. Local authorities "confirmed the death of six men…

MEXICO CITY: The United States has told Mexico it will consider granting humanitarian access for migrants of other nationalities following an accord this week for Venezuelans, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrardsaid on Friday.…

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ: After a horrific road accident killed 55 undocumented migrants in a truck on a major transit route to the United States, Mexico on Friday urged Washington to rethink its migration policy. Bodies draped in white sheets…

MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities on Saturday arrested two people suspected of involvement in a shooting between rival gangs on a beach near the Caribbean resort of Cancun that left two people dead. The armed clash, which took place on…

MEXICO: Mexico said Thursday it has made the biggest seizure of pure fentanyl in its history, after five suspected drug traffickers were arrested at a lab along with 260 pounds (118 kilograms) of the synthetic opioid. Fentanyl is 50…

MEXICO CITY: Hurricane Rick headed for Mexico's southern Pacific coast Sunday and was forecast to reach land by Monday morning. The US National Hurricane Center said Rick had winds as high as 85 miles per hour (140 kph) and was expected…

LIMA: Peru, which has the world's highest Covid-19 death rate per capita, has surpassed 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Friday. The ministry announced 25 new deaths over the previous 24 hours, taking the…

RIO DE JANEIRO: United States secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke with his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Franca to discuss "unprecedented" regional migration and ways to collaborate to slow the number of migrants heading north, the…