Tag: Mexico

Samara (Russia): Brazil’s talisman Neymar scored one and assisted another in the second-half as the five-time world champions defeated Mexico 2-0 here on Monday to enter the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals. Neymar scored from a close-range in the 51st minute before setting up for Roberto Firmino’s strike in the 88th minute as Mexico failed to […]

Mexico City: A Mexican journalist was shot dead in a bar in the state of Quintana Roo, the eight such murder case this year. Jose Guadalupe Chan Dzib was a well-known journalist in southeastern Mexico who had worked in several newspapers and was presently working as a crime reporter for Playa News, an online newspaper […]

Mexico City: Some 89 million Mexicans will be able to vote in Sunday’s presidential election, when they will decide whether they elect continuity, embodied in the two right-wing parties, the PRI and the PAN, or change, represented by the left-leaning candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. In a country that has endured high levels of corruption […]

Moscow: Mexico created the first upset of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, overcoming defending champions Germany 1-0 in a frenetic Group F game at the Luzhniki Stadium here on Sunday. Forward Hirving Lozano’s 35th-minute goal proved to make the difference in a match played at a very high tempo as four-time champions Germany began their […]

Mexico City: At least 10 people have been killed when a cargo truck slammed into a bus in Mexico’s Tlaxcala state. The accident, which left another 11 people injured, occurred on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. The cargo truck reportedly had break failure and rammed into the bus, killing eight passengers on site, the police […]

Mexico City: Mexican authorities have discovered 109 migrants showing signs of dehydration and suffocation crammed inside a truck in Tamaulipas, an official report said. The migrants were trying to reach the US, and according to their statement, “we were taken by human traffickers from the state of Chiapas to Tamaulipas”, Efe news reported. The National […]

Guwahati: Mexico advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup after playing a goalless draw against Chile here on Saturday. Mexico have two points from three matches and are the fourth best team among the sides who finished third in all the six groups. From this group, England and Iraq bagged the top two […]

New Delhi: Indians top ahead of Thailand and Mexico when it comes to using social media while holidaying, says a survey conducted by Expedia. Indians love to be connected all the time, however, it also means that they do not disconnect from work much. Indians are globally most anxious on not being able to access […]

Mexico City: Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano registered a mild eruption, sending a 2 km-high plume of smoke and steam, authorities said. The eruption registered at 9.04 a.m. (local time) was the fourth in 24 hours, according to the National Disaster Prevention Centre of Mexico. “In the past 24 hours, the Popocatepetl Volcano monitoring system registered 88 […]

Mexico City: At least 14 people were killed and eight injured in a shooting late on Tuesday in a drug rehab centre in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua, local police said. The assailants entered the centre “Uniting Families” and opened fire at the people inside, Xinhua reported. It is estimated that about 25 people were […]

Mexico City: A week after the powerful earthquake hit central and southern Mexico, many residents of the capital Mexico City on Tuesday still remain homeless on the streets, not knowing where to go and fearing possible burglaries of the belongings they abandoned in their houses. Merced Silva slept Monday night in a van, along with […]

San Diego: Work began on Tuesday on the construction of prototypes for the wall along the US-Mexico border that US President Donald Trump wants to build to stop illegal immigration. Customs and Border Protection said that activities commenced in Otay Mesa, California, where the prototypes will be erected in a zone that is carefully monitored […]

Mexico City: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the south of Mexico on Saturday, where officials were working to assess the scale of the damage, the Mexican seismic alert system reported. The temblor occurred 123 kilometre to the southeast of Salina Cruz, which is located on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca, Efe news […]

Mexico City: At least 105 people were killed in a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico on Tuesday and the toll is expected to increase, officials said. In Mexico City alone, at least 30 people died and 44 buildings were reduced to rubble. Eight others were reportedly killed in the surrounding state of Mexico, 13 […]

Mexico City: Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said here his government was confident that important advances can be made during the third round of renegotiations for NAFTA. Participating at a Forbes business forum, Guajardo said only four NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) chapters would be discussed in the third round of seven planned renegotiations […]