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Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a stool in a Mexico City street taco stand, downing a sweet soda and eating a final pork-filled corn tortilla.

• 24 мая 2013, 13:46

Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game.

• 21 мая 2013, 18:20

Mexico deployed thousands of extra troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday in a bid to tamp down drug cartel violence amid the emergence of vigilante groups.

• 21 мая 2013, 14:16

Mexico cut its 2013 growth forecast on Friday after the economy expanded less than expected in the first quarter due to slumping industrial production and near stagnant exports.

• 18 мая 2013, 14:04

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed a new column of ash late Tuesday, with some of the material falling on three towns while glowing rocks landed on the towering mountain's slope.

• 15 мая 2013, 12:46

US President Barack Obama heads to Costa Rica on Friday for a summit with Central American leaders on trade, immigration and the drug war after renewing security ties with Mexico.

• 03 мая 2013, 15:48

US President Barack Obama should address human rights violations related to Mexico's Washington-backed war on drugs when he visits the country this week.

• 01 мая 2013, 17:19

Kazakhstan boxers won all five bouts that were held as part of the semifinal WSB match in Almaty on April 20.

• 22 апреля 2013, 15:13

Bagdad Alimbekov, Samat Bashenov, Ruslan Myrsatayev, Sergey Derevyanchenko, Ehsan Rouzbahani and Eric Donovan will fight for Kazakhstan.

• 19 апреля 2013, 18:50

The WSB match between Astana Arlans and Mexico Guerreros ended with the score of 3:2. The return match will be held in Almaty on April 20.

• 16 апреля 2013, 15:21

Foreign energy firms have flocked to a narrow region of southern Mexico, known as one of the world's windiest places, to build towering wind turbines, but some projects have angered and torn indigenous villages.

• 07 апреля 2013, 14:00

A gunman opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding two others in the latest burst of violence in the country.

• 31 марта 2013, 13:32

Two women became the first same-sex couple to marry in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca after the Supreme Court found the state's definition of marriage unconstitutional.

• 29 марта 2013, 13:09

A small truck loaded with fireworks for a religious event exploded in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, with one witness saying he saw "bodies flying" as people ran for cover.

• 17 марта 2013, 10:16

Mexico's government introduced a draft constitutional reform Monday to end monopolies in telecoms industries that have built some of the country's biggest fortunes.

• 12 марта 2013, 16:49

Clergy sex abuse victims listed a "dirty dozen" potential papal candidates Wednesday and urged the Roman Catholic Church to "get serious" about protecting children, helping victims and exposing corruption.

• 08 марта 2013, 20:17

Scientists said Thursday they are a step closer to proving the death blow for dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a gigantic comet or asteroid that struck near Mexico.

• 09 февраля 2013, 10:23

A nine-year-old Mexican girl has given birth and authorities are looking for the presumed father, who is 17.

• 07 февраля 2013, 18:42

A French woman was freed from Mexican prison Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television seven years ago.

• 25 января 2013, 11:45

A bronze statue of Azerbaijan's late leader is going to be booted out of Mexico City's most famous avenue after rights activists complained that a "dictator" did not deserve such an honor.

• 25 января 2013, 10:47