Deadly shoot-out ends in Mexico
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Six bodies are recovered from a house in Mexico after a stand-off between police and gunmen, officials say.
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An amateur video released Tuesday shows that Mexico City police were present late last month before a street mob beat three plainclothes federal agents and set two of them on fire, killing both men.
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An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - More than 10 people were  killed in a nearly four-hour-long gunbattle between two drug  gangs in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Brazilian media said.
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NADADORES, Mexico  - A tractor-trailer loaded with explosives blew up in Mexico on Monday after a traffic accident, creating a huge fireball that killed dozens, including rescue workers and photographers.
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Nine people, including three federal agents, were found dead at two locations near Mexico&#39;s resort town of Cancun, all believed slain by drug traffickers.
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Gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, Mexican media reported. A group of heavily armed men shot their guns in the air as they entered a bar in Uruapan in central Michoacan state at about 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT)and ordered patrons to the ground before tossing the heads in plastic bags onto the center of the dance floor, according to reports.
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Gunmen killed two members of Mexico's former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Mexico, local media reported.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico, Feb. 6 -- More than a dozen armed assailants staged and videotaped simultaneous attacks against two offices of the state attorney general Tuesday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, killing at least seven people.
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The bodies of 12 men killed by hitmen believed linked to drug gangs were found Tuesday in the northern state of Sinaloa, in what appears to be one of the deadliest one-day tolls in violent drug battles in recent years.
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Officials found six bodies Thursday inside a Tijuana house where gunmen took refuge during a shootout with soldiers and police
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Gunmen killed a newspaper photographer as he and his family ate in a restaurant in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the home turf of nearly all of Mexico's top drug bosses, authorities said Monday.
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Assailants shot dead an Indian activist in Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Oaxaca, police said Saturday. It was not clear if the killing was related to months of political violence in which at least nine other people have died.
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At least 26 senior citizens, almost all of them women, have been killed in Mexico City in the past two years, according to Bernardo Batiz, the city's top prosecutor. The killings have alarmed senior citizens, angered women's groups and prompted comparisons with the decade-long string of murders of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
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CANCUN, Mexico -- Police found the bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, in two areas Thursday near this Caribbean resort city, apparent victims of drug killings, officials said.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels are killing record numbers of people with unprecedented brutality. Federal security forces are bogged down in a violent political conflict in the southern city of Oaxaca. Years of sluggish economic growth cannot meet the needs of a country where over half the population lives in poverty.
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Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.