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Mexican Police Officer Killed During Attempted Lynching

A police officer in Zacatelco, located in Mexico's Tlaxcala State, was killed while attempting to break up a lynching of two men who have been accused of killing a taxi driver on Monday. An Attempt to Restore Order: Officers responded to a mob of individuals who had attacked the two accused men who reportedly attempted to rob the elderly taxi driver,...

Mexico Releases Footage of Arrest of Former Ecuadorian VP

Mexico's Foreign Ministry released footage of the arrest of Jorge Glas, a former Ecuadorian Vice President, on Tuesday. An Opposed Raid: Footage, which was posted on X, shows authorities breaching the embassy and carrying out a search of the premise. While the operation was in progress, Mexican diplomat Roberto Conseco could be seen building a barricade at one of the points...

Ecuador Storms Mexican Embassy, Arrests Former Vice President

Escalating Tensions Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Obrador, has ordered relations with Ecuador to be suspended after Ecuadorian police raided Mexico's embassy in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital. Ecuador's police raided the embassy in order to arrest former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas. During the raid, a brief altercation with the head of Mexico's consular section, Roberto Canseco, occurred as he attempted to...

Another Mayoral Candidate Shot Dead in Guanajuato, Mexico

What You Need to Know: Another Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) Party Mayoral candidate, Bertha Gaytan, was shot dead by an armed group while campaigning in the Guanajuato City of San Miguel Octopan on Monday.  The murder of Mrs Gaytan follows that of Jaime González Pérez, Mayoral candidate for the city of Puebla on March 23rd and Miguel Zavala, Mayoral candidate for...

Three Lynched in Connection to Murder of Eight Year Old Girl, Mexico

Three people, a woman and two men, were lynched in connection with the murder of an eight-year-old girl by the name of Camila in the city of Taxco, located in Mexico’s Guerrero state. This article contains graphic videos and imagery. Mob Justice: The woman, identified as Ana Rosa Díaz Aguilar, is the mother of one of Camila’s friends, who had kidnapped the...

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M23 Occupies Strategic Mining Town, DRC

The M23 rebels of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have occupied a strategic mining town in the east of the country, further expanding their already considerably large zone of control. An Expanding War The...

Demonstrations Break Out in Germany Amid Workers’ Day

Thousands of Germans took to streets across the nation to protest a number of concerns, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, border security, and "social cuts," according to protestors. The Protests: An estimated 20,000 people took to the...

“Islamic Resistance in Bahrain” Claims Drone Attack Against Israel

The Bahraini Iran-backed Shia militia group Saraya al-Ashtar, which has renamed itself as the "Islamic Resistance in Bahrain," has claimed to have carried out a drone attack against the Israeli city of Eilat last...