Mexico's new President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged Saturday to reduce the poverty and violence plaguing his country after a rowdy swearing-in ceremony marked by protests inside and outside Congress.

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Assange, 41, has been shelterin

At least 29 people died in Guatemala on Wednesday in a 7.4-magnitude undersea quake that also jolted Mexico and El Salvador.

In the worst affected San Marcos department in Guatemala, about 155 people

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Juanita Castro, who resides in Miami, said

At least 10 people were killed when a fire erupted at a gas plant owned by Mexican energy giant Pemex near the US border on Tuesday, in the state monopoly's worst accident in two years.

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Enrique Pena Nieto was finally declared Mexico's president-elect on Friday after a two-month legal fight, but his leftist rival refused to accept the result and called for a rally.

Two US embassy employees were shot and wounded when their car came under fire south of Mexico City on Friday, an official from the attorney general's office said.

"The two are from the US embassy," t

Gunmen stormed two strip clubs in northern Mexico over the weekend, killing three people and wounding five others in the latest spate of violence in Nuevo Leon state, officials said Monday.

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A mayor-elect from the Institutional Revolutionary Party that scored a comeback in recent elections was found shot dead on Sunday with an aide in northern Mexico, officials said.

"The lifeless body o