Washington: "Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour the social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged. The intriguing list, released by the US Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act, also includes obvious choices such as "attack", "al Qaeda", "terrorism" and "dirty bomb", the 'Daily Mail' reported. Department...
06:52 PM, May 27, 2012
Monterrey (Mexico): Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels. Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn scattered in a pool of blood at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a...
09:29 AM, May 14, 2012
Mexico City: Authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Campeche have said that they are investigating how a porn video was made by sixth-graders inside their school. State Education Department spokesman Omar Kantun said the video was apparently made in an empty classroom during recess in late April. "It is real, the case is real, the video exists," Kantun said. "The Education Department is very concerned." He said an investigation...
05:30 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a new ad on Tuesday accusing Republican Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs and slamming him for keeping money in foreign bank accounts. The ad says Romney "shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China" when he led the investment firm Bain Capital. And it says Romney "outsourced state jobs to a call center in India" when he was governor of Massachusetts....
09:47 AM, May 04, 2012
Mexico City: A moderate earthquake in the western Mexican state of Michoacan swayed buildings in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico City's mayor says there no reports of damage in the capital. The US Geological Survey says the 5.7 earthquake was centred 137 kilometres from Michoacan's capital, Morelia. An earlier 5.0 quake struck 184 kilometres off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur. Neither state...
04:12 AM, May 02, 2012
Mexico City: A moderate earthquake off the coast of Baja California swayed buildings in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico City's mayor says there were no immediate reports of damage in the capital. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.0 quake was centred about 184 kilometres off the coast of Cabo San Lucas and about 11 kilometres deep. Many businesses were closed for a holiday in Mexico City, which has...
10:49 PM, May 01, 2012
Mexico City: Reports that a woman in northern Mexico is pregnant with nine babies are a hoax, health authorities said on Friday. Mexico's main broadcaster Televisa and top daily newspapers ran stories about a woman expecting nonuplets late on Thursday after she provided welfare officials with supposed evidence of the multiple pregnancy, including an ultrasound video, said a spokesman for the health ministry of Coahuila state. Following the news, local...
08:29 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Mexico City: A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night. The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report. Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility...
11:06 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Mexico City: A strong earthquake struck a sparsely populated area in the mountains of western Mexico on Wednesday, and caused tall buildings to sway more than 200 miles away in Mexico City. People evacuated some buildings in the capital, but the city government said helicopter flights detected no signs of damage. Authorities in Michoacan state, where the tremor was centered, also had no immediate reports of damage. The US Geological...
06:46 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Mexico City: The head of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, or IFE, said political parties that failed to abide by gender equality rules in selecting candidates for the July general elections would face legal consequences. The National Action Party, or PAN, Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and the Mexican Green Party informed election officials over the past few days that they would be unable to comply with the gender quotas established...
11:51 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, is safe and never was in danger during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted Mexico, the White House has said. Malia, 13, is on vacation with her friends in Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico. "In light of today's earthquake, we can confirm that Malia Obama is safe and was never in danger," the US first lady's communications director Kristina Schake said in a written...
04:42 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Mexico City: A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City. One of the strongest to shake Mexico since the deadly 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City, Tuesday's earthquake hit hardest in border area of southern Oaxaca and Guerrero states. In Guerrero,...
02:27 AM, Mar 21, 2012
A look at the world's strongest earthquakes and tsunamis: March 20, 2012: A 7.4-magnitude quake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shakes central southern Mexico, swaying buildings in Mexico City. March 11, 2011: A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a tsunami across the Pacific and killing a still-undetermined number of people. October 2011: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Turkey claims at least 582 lives, most...
01:51 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Mexico City: Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Tuesday, via his Twitter account, that there was no serious damage reported from a strong earthquake that hit near the country's western coast and shook buildings as far as the capital. Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard said, also via his Twitter account, that he saw no damages as he surveyed the city from a helicopter. A major earthquake struck southwestern Mexico on...
01:13 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Mexico City: A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country and swaying buildings in Mexico City. Plaster fell from ceilings and windows broke in the center of the capital, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon said there were no immediate reports of major damage. The initial quake in Guerrero state was followed by a less powerful, magnitude-5.1 aftershock that also was felt in...
11:52 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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