U.S. agents under greater attack on Mexico border
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LAREDO, Texas  - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
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A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over Monday in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine Mexican citizens and injuring at least 12 others, officials said.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border is forcing migrants to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.
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Leftist rebels behind this week's crippling bomb attacks on Mexican gas and oil pipelines said they are acting in self-defense against government aggression.
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Mexico sought a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.
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Mexico's increasingly brazen drug cartels may have been behind a bomb blast in the center of the capital in what would be a major escalation of a war with President Felipe Calderon's government.
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A U.S. alert about violence along the border in Mexico created unexpected friction with a crucial neighbor Thursday, just as new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other new members of President Bush's team are starting to take office.
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Marauding drug gangs in a violent  Mexican border city have turned to kidnapping U.S. citizens for  ransom as they seek to diversify their criminal activities, the  U.S. government warned on Friday.
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Mexico asked the U.S. government on  Tuesday to formally explain the use of pepper guns by Border  Patrol agents against illegal Mexican migrants, the government  news agency said.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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It is a Texas showdown, a war of words over illegal immigration at the border.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Governments throughout Mexico and Central America are on alert as evidence grows that al-Qaida members are traveling in the region and looking for recruits to carry out attacks in Latin America - the potential last frontier for international terrorism.    The territory could be a perfect staging ground for Osama bin Laden's militants, with homegrown rebel groups, drug and people smugglers, and corrupt governments...
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More than 60 percent of U.S. Border  Patrol agents and immigration officers said the Department of  Homeland Security could do more to stop potential terrorists  from entering the United States, a new study said.
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Militants from Nigeria's oil-producing delta are planning to expand their attacks on foreign nationals beyond the Niger Delta region, the U.S. consulate said in a warning on Friday.
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Honduras has stepped up security at embassies here after the government received information that Al Qaida is trying recruit Hondurans to attack the embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said Sunday.
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TUCSON, Arizona  - A drive to recruit thousands more Border Patrol agents may flood the service with inexperienced officers and lead to increased corruption, officials said on Monday.
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Two jailed drug bosses have joined forces to beat back a massive offensive by the Juarez cartel, sparking a bloody turf war that has rocked the U.S.-Mexico border, the resort city of Cancun and other key smuggling corridors across the country, Mexico's top anti-narcotics prosecutor said Thursday.